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(Eagle News)–The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights. MIAA said the list was for Friday, June 12: Flight schedules may be subject to changes. Several airlines have announced a resumption of flights amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Transportation Secretary Art Tugade has said domestic flights were allowed for as long as there was approval from the local government. International travel restrictions remain in place, the government had said.
Initial reports said 10 of 14 who tested positive for COVID-19 were family members who attended celebration during MECQ (Eagle News)–The Navotas government has placed on lockdown one street in Barangay Navotas West after 14 people tested positive for COVID-19 there. According to Mayor Toby Tiangco, the lockdown on H. Monroy St. starts today, at 5:01 a.m., and will end on June 15, at 11:59 p.m. Tiangco said based on initial investigation, of the 14 […]
(Eagle News)–The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights. MIAA said the list was for Thursday, June 11: Flight schedules are subject to changes. Earlier, several airlines have announced a resumption of their domestic flight operations as Metro Manila shifted to a general community quarantine. Transportation Secretary Art Tugade said domestic flights were allowed provided there was approval from the local government unit concerned. The Bureau of Immigration has said […]
(Eagle News)–The Metro Rail Transit-3 reminded commuters on Wednesday, June 10, that passengers on trains are limited amid the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the MRT-3, each train set can only carry 153 passengers, with each train car carrying 51 people. The MRT-3 said this was in compliance with Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases guidelines. Social distancing markers are also placed in each platform to ensure the required one-meter distancing between […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine Airlines has announced the cancellation of some of its flights between the Philippines, and the United States and Canada. In an advisory, PAL said the following flights were cancelled because “government authorities are unable to give us an allocation for international arrival slots at Manila airport because of unavoidable constraints in quarantine processing in Manila”: PR102/103 Manila-Los Angeles-Manila on June 10 PR104/105 Manila-San Francisco-Manila on June 10 PR116/117 Manila-Vancouver-Manila on June 10 […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxgSfro5lvE (Eagle News) — The Department of Agriculture moved to investigate reported high prices of meat products in the country. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said that he has already asked his people to look into this amid rise in meat prices, particularly of pork which he said should just be sold at the suggested retail price of P190 per kilo (for pigue/kasim or leg or ham cut) Dar said that the DA would coordinate with […]
(Eagle News)-Two more House employees have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. House Secretary General Jose Montales said the employees are a married couple. He said one is assigned at the Printing Office and the other at the engineering department. They last reported for work on May 28. In March, several House employees tested positive for COVID-19. At least one of them passed away.
(Eagle News)–The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights. MIAA said the list was for Tuesday, June 9: Flight schedules may be subject to changes. Earlier, Transportation Secretary Art Tugade said domestic flights were allowed for as long as there was approval from the local government unit concerned. Cebu Pacific has cancelled its flights between Manila and General Santos City. The Bureau of Immigration said its operations remain downsized at […]
(Eagle News) — The Quezon City government has said it would provide over 175,000 high school students with .tablets to ensure their continued education amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement, the local government said the tablets for 155,921 enrolled junior high school students and 19,810 enrolled senior high school students were apart from what Aly Medalla, the City’s Education Affairs Head, said were the city government’s plans to “assign gadgets to all public schools […]
(Eagle News)–Five San Juan City policemen have been relieved for disregarding Baguio City’s health protocols, National Capital Region Police Office chief Debold Sinas said on Monday, June 8. According to Sinas, the five, who were part of San Juan Mayor Francis Zamora’s convoy, have been ordered transferred to the NCRPO’s Regional Personnel Holding and Accounting Unit pending investigation of the incident that saw the mayor’s convoy “disregarding” a checkpoint. “I will not condone any wrongdoing […]
(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Immigration has announced its main office in Intramuros will be closed today, June 8, to pave the way for a disinfection of the area. The immigration bureau said the disinfection–and therefore the suspension of operations—is after an employee tested positive for COVID-19. “We have decided to temporarily close our main office to protect not only our employees but that of the transacting public as well against this deadly virus,” Immigration bureau […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine National Police has sought the assistance of the Department of Health for an independent probe into the accidental exposure to chemicals of a team of police medical and healthcare personnel at a PNP-managed COVID-19 quarantine facility. In a statement, the PNP said upon instructions by PNP Chief, Police General Archie Gamboa, Lt. Gen. Camilo Cascolan, PNP Deputy Chief for Administration and Commander of the PNP Administrative Support to COVID-19 Task Force (ASCOTF) […]
