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Makati City and Manila City next top performing cities with highest tax collections (Eagle News) – Quezon City was named as the country’s top-performing city in terms of local revenue generation after it collected P22.9 billion in taxes last year, the Department of Finance said. In a memo released by the DOF-Bureau of Local Government (DOF-BLGF), Quezon City ranked no. 1 among all the cities in the country in terms of tax collections or […]
(Eagle News) — Fifty-five areas in Quezon City are under a “special concern lockdown” amid the increase in COVID-19 cases there. According to the local government, the “special concern lockdown” in the following areas will last for 14 days: According to the local government, it will distribute food packs and essential kits to affected families. The affected families will also undergo swab testing and a mandatory 14-day quarantine. Quezon City is part of Metro Manila, […]
Points to another possible Delta variant case who lives in another city, but is working in a factory in QC (Eagle News) — The Quezon City government said a returning Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) from Saudi Arabia who arrived on June 24, but stayed in a hotel in Makati City, is the first confirmed Delta variant case in the city, even as it is closely monitoring another possible Delta variant case. Although classified as […]
Lawsuit eyed for firm’s failure to meet contractual obligations (Eagle News) — The Quezon City government has decided to terminate its contract with EzConsult, Zuellig Pharma Corporation’s booking services, due to a series of technical difficulties experienced by city residents. Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte said that the city government had received numerous complaints from the ineffective services of EzConsult that made it difficult for Quezon City residents to have a scheduled vaccination slot. […]
Belmonte, who got COVID twice, says “the best vaccine is the one readily available” (Eagle News) – Quezon City mayor Joy Belmonte said she was just got her first COVID-19 vaccine shot on Monday, May 24. She said she got the Sinovac dose. Belmonte, in a post at the Quezon City government’s Facebook page, explained that she booked for a vaccine shot through the EZConsult website so she would experience the whole process of […]
(Eagle News) — An improvised pool party in Novaliches, Quezon City became a super-spreader event for COVID-19 where 51 tested positive for the virus recently. Because of this Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte again issued a “stern warning to residents who organize and join large social gatherings that may cause coronavirus outbreaks in the City.” Sge also ordered a probe of the officials of Barangay Nagkaisang Nayon where the pool party happened. “Lahat ng mga […]
Lawmaker says reactions against Ivermectin use already expected as big business of pharma firms affected (Eagle News) – House Deputy Speaker Rodante Marcoleta defended the distribution of Ivermectin to a depressed community in Quezon City, including the doctors who helped them in the event called “Ivermectin Pan-three”. In an interview with the Eagle News Service program Balitalakayan aired on NET 25 on Tuesday, May 4, Marcoleta said he is expecting the barrage of criticisms […]
(Eagle News) — Quezon City mayor Joy Belmonte again tested posiitve for COVID-19. In a statement on Monday, March 29, Belmonte said that she is “very sad” to report that she got the virus again, about eight months after her first bout with COVID-19. She said she was just “feeling very mild symptoms” and would continue to perform all her executive functions while under quarantine. Belmonte said that she contracted COVID-19 although she had […]
Transmission by infected employee to household further spreads virus (Eagle News) – The workplace has been identified as a hotspot for COVID-19 transmission, according to the Quezon City government citing data on recent rise in infections. “Reports showed that household transmission stems from one member of the household acquiring the virus from his workplace,” said Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte. From the workplace, the infected employee or worker then pass the virus to their households […]
Mayor Belmonte warns against discrimination if resident is allowed to return to community (Eagle News) – The country’s first UK-COVID-19 variant positive case who has now tested negative for the virus might soon be allowed to return to his community once assessed to have fully recovered, according to the Quezon City government on Friday, Jan. 21. The patient who is a resident of Quezon City is still staying at a quarantine facility and doctors […]
QC isolating 143 individuals in all, including contacts of “close contacts” (Eagle News) — Quezon City mayor Joy Belmonte said they are also contact-tracing and testing nine other Quezon City residents who were listed in the manifesto of the Emirates flight boarded by the COVID-19 patient who was later found to have the so-called UK strain, or variant B.1.1.7. They are among the 143 individuals that they have already traced as contacts of the […]
Duterte refers to highly infectious COVID strain as “new monster” (Eagle News) – President Rodigo Duterte said that he is hoping and praying that the highly infectious variant B.1.1.7, also known as the United Kingdom strain, is not more dangerous or toxic than previous COVID-19 strains. This was after the Department of Health (DOH) bared that the UK strain had been detected in a Filipino who arrived in the country on Jan. 7 after […]
