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DOT WELCOMES SHORTENED QUARANTINE FOR VAXXED OFWS

The Department of Tourism (DOT) welcomed the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases’ (IATF-EID)  decision to shorten the hotel quarantine period for fully vaccinated returning overseas Filipinos, including Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs)  and balikbayans from yellow countries, from five days to just three days starting November 22. Tourism Secretary Berna Romulo-Puyat confirmed […]

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Politics

MERALCO SHOULD GIVE SEPARATE SHEET FOR UNDERESTIMATE, OVERESTIMATE BILL COMPUTATIONS – GATCHALIAN

Senator Win Gatchalian is urging the Manila Electric Company (Meralco), the country’s largest distribution utility, to come up with a separate bill that is more transparent and will be very clear to the consumers, following mounting complaints of a sudden surge in supposed electricity consumption for the month of May. During a recent Joint Congressional Energy Commission […]

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Government

11,549 HOTEL ROOMS RESERVED FOR OFW QUARANTINE – ROMULO-PUYAT

Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat confirmed a total of 11,549 hotel rooms for the accommodation of repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are required to undergo a 14-day quarantine upon their arrival to the country. Meanwhile, business process outsourcing (BPO) employees are currently billeted in some 13,287 hotel rooms located in the National […]