#COVID-19

PRRD approves lifting travel restrictions to 10 countries

President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) recommendation of lifting travel restrictions in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates beginning Sept. 6.

DBM releases P800-M worth of special risk allowance funds

The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) on Friday (Sept. 3) released more than P800 million for the special risk allowance (SRA) funds of health workers.

P18-M DOLE aid awarded to informal workers

To cushion the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the informal sector workers, the labor department awarded on Friday, Sept. 3, nearly P18 million pesos worth of livelihood packages in Calabarzon and Central Luzon.

PRRD urges public to get COVID-19 vaccinated anew

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on Thursday (Sep. 2) urged the public to get vaccinated for protection against COVID-19, following the country breaching the 2-million mark in the COVID-19 cases. In his public...

PGC: Emergence of COVID-19 variants ‘part of viral evolutionary process’

The Philippine Genome Center (PGC) said the emergence of variants amid the COVID-19 pandemic is “part of the viral evolutionary process.”

Calls received by PH hospital referral center up by 200% in August

The country’s hospital referral facility One Hospital Command Center (OHCC) has been receiving more calls per day amid the reported increase of COVID-19 cases in the country. Speaking at the Sept. 3...

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