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Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte announced today she has joined the Bloomberg Philanthropies Partnership for Healthy Cities Global Leadership Series, a weekly virtual convening of city leaders from around the world who are mobilizing their municipalities to respond to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Each week, mayors and public health officials come together to hear […]
In Executive Order 29, Mayor Joy Belmonte stressed that the city government is duty-bound to ensure the availability of sources of loans and credit to the poor and marginalized, during the ECQ.“Entities that are duly regulated by governmental authorities to offer loans and credit will be allowed to operate so they can provide assistance to […]
Quezon City Health Department (QCHD) head Dr. Esperanza Arias, said the city government is set to conduct an initial 1,300 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) tests next week using test kits coming from the Department of Health (DOH). Arias said the tests will be done in areas of Quezon City that have the highest number of […]
Acts of discrimination against persons suspected of having or being infected with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), health workers and emergency workers are now prohibited in Quezon City. Mayor Joy Belmonte signed Executive Order No. 26, Series of 2020 on Monday (April 6), which punishes those who will discriminate persons who are infected or are […]
The Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) has started providing protective equipment as well as needed hospital supplies to key public hospitals in Quezon City in an effort to assist the city government and health authorities in the fight against COVID-19. “We’re distributing these necessities to all public hospitals in Quezon City to address the urgent […]
Private hospitals in Quezon City will now automatically refer potential and positive coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases to the city government for further action. This was the agreement made during a recent meeting between Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte and 30 private hospitals in the city. The city government and the private hospitals also pledged […]
Amid the rising number of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in the Philippines, the Philippine Red Cross (PRC), chaired by Senator Dick Gordon, has put up a medical field tent at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI) in Quezon City as part of its efforts to provide assistance to hospitals treating COVID-19 patients. “The NKTI […]
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte has asked the City Council to extend the payment of business, real property and transfer taxes amid the threat of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-2019) in the city. “We have requested the City Council to enact a resolution or ordinance extending the payment of taxes. This way, local residents have more […]
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte has committed to provide security of land tenure for around 10,000 informal settler families (ISF) by 2022, under the city’s Local Shelter Plan 2020-2022. The Local Shelter Plan 2020-2022 was presented by the Housing, Community Development and Resettlement Department (HCDRD) during the Quezon City Housing Board meeting on Friday. “One […]
For the first time, another round of the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) will be held this summer, with its eight film entries to be screened starting Black Saturday. In a press launch of the event dubbed the Summer MMFF (SMMFF) in Makati City, MMFF and Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chair Danilo Lim emphasized […]