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Task Force to lead efforts to determine if variant B.1.1.7 has already entered PHL (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte directed the creation of another Task Force, this time, composed of medical experts and scientists directed at studying the new emerging COVID-19 virus strains or variants that are said to be more infectious than before. In his meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) Saturday night, Dec. 26, Duterte observed […]
Says any face-to-face activity for schoolchildren also suspended (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte recalled his previous order for a pilot testing of face-to-face classes all over the country because of the emergence of the new COVID-19 virus variant from the United Kingdom that is more infectious than previous strains. “Prudence tells us that we should confront this emerging infectious disease,” Duterte said in a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious […]
Sotto, Velasco sign bill that includes funds for gov’t COVID response for next year (Eagle News) — Both the Senate and the House of Representatives have already signed the bill on the P4.506-trillion national budget for 2021 which is to be transmitted to Malacanang for President Rodrigo Duterte’s signature by tomorrow, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. Both Senate President Vicente Sotto III and House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco have already signed the General Appropriations Act […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippines will get more than the 60 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines needed for the mass vaccination next year in the country, and sees the first roll-out of vaccines by March. This was according to vaccine czar and the chief implementer of the National Action Plan against COVID-19 Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. In his report to President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday night, Dec. 16, Galvez said that once the contracts […]
Duterte also hits NLEX for glitches in system, not doing trial run (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to fire officials of the Toll Regulatory Board for the traffic fiasco caused by the RFID mess in tollways that started with Duterhe implementation of cashless transactions on Dec. 1. “You know, I have to weed out incompetence. Listen very carefully to all and sundry, I do not want you … becoming a deadwood. If […]
Says he will assume “full responsibility” for paying hotels (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte directed all local government units to look for hotels, motels and inns which can be used as temporary isolation facilities for people who have been swabbed for COVID-19 where they will await test results, and eventually stay while under quarantine if they test positive. Duterte observed there is not enough spaces or areas where people suspected of having COVID-19 […]
Tasks DOH Sec. Duque to find ways to achieve this by next year (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he would be looking for ways to lower the prices of COVID-19 tests, including swab tests or RT-PCR tests, to make it more affordable. He is even thinking of having government shoulder the swab tests so that the public, especially the poor and marginalized, do not have to pay for these. President Duterte even […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said that a ceasefire with the communist rebels will not happen in the remaining year of his term. In his Talk to the Nation on Monday night, Dec. 7, Duterte dismissed any possibility of allowing a ceasefire with the New People’s Army rebels as he vowed to identify the NPAs in politics. “There will be no ceasefire ever again under my term — under my term ko pagka-Presidente. […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte emphasized his administration’s war against drugs as he recently led the destruction of P7.51-billion worth of confiscated illegal drugs, and vowed to spend the remaining year of his term battling illegal drugs. Duterte, who was elected in 2016 by a popular vote, had made it his campaign promise to fight crime, corruption and illegal drugs. In his campaign, he claimed that he could eradicate illegal drugs in six […]
With EO 121, FDA can issue authority to use “safe and effective” foreign FDA registered vaccines within 21 to 28 days (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte has signed an executive order granting Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for drugs and vaccines for COVID-19 paving the way for the early use of COVID-19 vaccines with proven efficacy and safety. President Duterte signed Executive Order (EO) No. 121 on Tuesday, Dec. 1, which authorizes the Food […]
Special Session to hone collective response of various countries on virus pandemic (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to reiterate his call for equal access to safe and effective vaccines for “rich and poor nations alike” on Dec. 3 when he delivers the Philippine statement on the 31st special session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. The special session will happen via video conference […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte decided to continue to place Metro Manila and the provinces of Batangas, Lanao del Sur, Iligan, and the cities of Iloilo, Tacloban and Davao under General Community Quarantine (GCQ) until year-end. In a televised address to the nation, Duterte on Monday night, Nov. 30, said that there has to be a continued GCQ in these areas as COVID cases continued to rise in these areas. The rest of […]
