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(Eagle News) — Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal will again be under the strictest form of community quarantine amid the surge in COVID-19 cases. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said on Saturday, March 27, that this was after President Rodrigo Duterte approved the recommendation of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases. The ECQ in the Greater Manila Area, as the areas are collectively called, will start at 12:01 a.m. […]
(Eagle News)–Philippine COVID-19 cases reached 712442 on Saturday, March 27, after the Department of Health reported 9595 additional cases. The DOH said of the total cases, 118122 were active. Of these, 95.1 percent were mild, 3.2 percent asymptomatic, 0.7 percent critical, 0.7 percent severe and 0.39 percent moderate. Recoveries rose to 581161, including the additional 481 ones. COVID-19 deaths have reached 13159, including the ten new ones. The Philippines is dealing with a surge in […]
(Eagle News) — The controversial convict former Calauan, Laguna mayor Antonio Sanchez has died, the Bureau of Corrections announced Saturday, 27 March 2021. Mayor Sanchez, convicted in 1995 for the June 1993 rape-slay of 19-year old University of the Philippines Los Banos student Mary Eileen Sarmenta and the killing of her boyfriend UPLB student Allan Gomez, was found unresponsive in his cell at around 7 a.m., Saturday. He was then brought to the New […]
(Eagle News) –The Bureau of Immigration has warned the public against individuals extorting money online. The bureau issued the reminder after receiving a complaint about an individual who introduced herself as a bureau lawyer and asked for P45,000 from an Indian national in exchange for the processing of the student’s school records. “We conducted an investigation and saw that there were many similar complaints in the past about this fake lawyer that introduced herself as […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law on Friday, March 26, the proposed Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) Act which lowered the corporate income tax rate to 25 percent in hopes of attracting more investments amid the still raging COVID-19 pandemic. Republic Act (RA) 11534 or the CREATE Act introduces reforms to the corporate income tax and incentives systems. Aside from cutting the corporate income tax rate to 25 […]
Also prioritizes degree programs related to medical, health fields (Eagle News) – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is allowing 24 higher education institutions (HEIs) all over the country to “hold limited face-to-face classes” and also selected degree programs prioritized for limited face to face classes effective the second semester of school year 2020-2021. CHED came out a list of the 24 schools, seven of which are located in Metro Manila or the National […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine COVID-19 cases breached the 702,000 mark on Friday, March 26, after the Department of Health reported 9,838 additional cases, an all-time high in the country since the pandemic began. According to DOH data, the additional COVID-19 cases pushed the COVID-19 total to 702,856, and active COVID-19 cases to 109,018. Of the active cases, 95.1 percent were mild, 3.0 percent asymptomatic, 0.7 percent critical, 0.8 percent severe, and 0.42 percent were moderate. […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine government has allowed the holding of once-a-day religious gatherings in the General Community Quarantine areas of Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal, from April 1 to April 4 at a limited 10 percent seating capacity, Malacanang said on Monday, March 26. There are however additional restrictions as contained in Resolution No. 105 of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases. The resolution was issued, among […]
DOH: 1.5M vaccine supply so far delivered not enough to cover all medical frontliners (Eagle News) – The Philippines has vaccinated more than half a million health care workers, or more than 41 percent of the 1.7 million medical frontliners targeted as A1 priority in the country’s vaccine rollout against COVID-19. The rollout started on March 1. President Rodrigo Duterte stressed the importance of vaccinating all health care workers first before giving shots to […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine Airlines has announced more international flight cancellations in compliance with the government’s reduced cap on the number of international arrivals in a day. In its advisory issued on Thursday night, PAL said the following are canceled: March 26 PR5686/5687 Manila-Dammam-Manila PR428/427 Manila-Tokyo (Narita)-Manila PR412/411 Manila-Osaka (Kansai)-Manila PR507/508 Manila-Singapore-Manila PR426/425 Manila-Fukuoka-Manila PR 658/659 Manila-Dubai-Manila PR 300/301 Manila-Hong Kong-Manila March 27 PR 104/105 Manila-San Francisco-Manila PR 890/891 […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police announced it has simplified its death benefit claims process, with bereaved kin of policemen killed in the line of duty no longer required to make a physical appearance at the PNP headquarters to process claims. In a statement, the PNP said under the new system, a designated “survivor officer” can assist the family in securing the necessary documents required in the processing and timely release of death benefits. […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP ) — The Philippine military ordered the deployment of more navy ships to the South China Sea Thursday amid a growing diplomatic row over a fleet of Chinese boats parked near a disputed reef. China claims almost the entirety of the resource-rich sea, and was accused by the United States this week of efforts to “intimidate and provoke others” by parking its vessels near Whitsun Reef. Manila has ordered Beijing to recall […]
