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(Eagle News) — Metro Manila will remain under Alert Level 1 until March 31, Malacanang said on Tuesday, March 15, which also declared 47 other areas under Alert Level 1 until the end of the month. The Inter-Agency Task Force made the decision on Tuesday, March 15. Aside from the National Capital Region, also under Alert Level 1 are the following: For Luzon- Cordillera Administrative Region: Abra, Apayao, Baguio City and Kalinga; Region I: […]
(Eagle News) — Iloilo City has been placed under Alert Level 1 to “take effect immediately and until March 15, 2022,” Malacanang said. In a statement, the Palace said that the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on Thursday, March 10, “approved the de-escalation of Iloilo City to Alert Level 1 after meeting the prescribed criteria for de-escalation to Alert Level 1 of the sub-Technical Working Group on Data Analytics.” Because of this, Iloilo City joins Metro […]
232 more COVID-19 deaths reported (Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines rose to 3,665,747 after the Department of Health reported 853 additional cases. According to the DOH, of the 853 reported cases today, 784 (92%) occurred within the recent 14 days (February 19 – March 4, 2022). The top regions with cases in the recent two weeks were Metro Manila (170 or 22%), Region 4-A (128 or 16%) and Region 7 (94 or […]
68.8M more individuals receive first doses, 10.2 million booster doses given so far (Eagle News) – The Philippines has already fully vaccinated 63.2 million people, while 68.8 million have already received their first doses of the Covid-19 vaccines, Malacanang said on Tuesday, March 1, as the country marked the first year of its mass vaccination campaign to defeat the pandemic. March 1 was also the start of de-escalation of Metro Manila and 38 other areas […]
Palace releases new guidelines as NCR and 38 other areas shift to Alert Level 1 (Eagle News) — Wearing of well-fitted face masks at all times, full seating capacity for public transport, and not requiring the use of health declaration forms for contact tracing. These are just some of the amended protocols by the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) released by Malacanang as Metro Manila and 38 more areas in the country shift to the least […]
Says NCR, 38 other areas to be placed under Alert Level 1 on March 1, to continue observing minimum health protocols (Eagle News) — Malacanang reiterated on Monday, February 28, the four conditions that should be met by an area before it could be de-escalated to Alert Level 1. This was a day before Metro Manila and 38 other areas in the country are placed under Alert Level 1. These conditions are the following: […]
(Eagle News) — Metro Manila and 38 other areas in the country were placed under Alert Level 1 effective Tuesday, March 1, Malacanang said. The announcement was made on Sunday, February 27, after the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) approved placing the National Capital Region under Alert Level 1 from March 1, 2022 until March 15, 2022. Other areas in Luzon placed under Alert Level 1 from March 1 to 15, 2022 are the following: • […]
Other areas in the PHL to also be assessed if they can be de-escalated (Eagle News) – The Inter-Agency Task Force is set to decide whether to place Metro Manila under Alert Level 1 and will study current data if the National Capital Region, currently under Alert Level 2, is ripe for de-escalation. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said that the IATF is set to study on Thursday, February 24, the proposal of the […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine government has added a new metric before an area such as the National Capital Region (NCR) could be deescalated to Alert Level 1. Secretary Francisco Duque III of the Department of Health (DOH) said that aside from decreasing number of new cases, declining Covid positivity rate, and low-risk health care utilization rates, 80 percent of the senior citizens and other vulnerable groups such as those with comorbidities should have […]
New normal roadmap to be presented by March to President Duterte (Eagle News) – The Philippines has started to prepare for the transition to the new normal as the government intensifies its vaccination campaign, moving towards house-to-house vaccination as a strategy to reach the unvaccinated population. Malacanang said that “Alert Level 1” is considered the new normal amid the continuing pandemic. To attain this, the government needs to prioritize the vaccination of the elderly which […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology has raised the alert level 1 for Mt. Pinatubo. In making the move, PHIVOLCS noted the “persistence of seismic activity.” For instance, since January 20, 2021, it said the Pinatubo Volcano Network (PVN) has detected 1,722 “imperceptible earthquakes” beneath the Pinatubo edifice. It said the first cluster on Jan. 20-26 occurred along the Sacobia Lineament at depths of 15-28 kilometers and ranged between ML1.0 and […]
(Eagle News) — Five volcanic earthquakes were monitored at Kanlaon in 24 hours. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said also monitored at the volcano, which remains on alert level 1, was sulfur dioxide emission. Sulfur dioxide emission was measured at an average of 467 tons on January 31. PHIVOLCS said inflation was reported on various sectors of the volcano, which “may indicate hydrothermal or magmatic processes occurring deep beneath the edifice.” PHIVOLCS reminded […]
