The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) assured consumers that there is enough supply of food and basic commodities even during the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) that will be imposed in Metro Manila starting August 6.
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has approved the recommendation of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) to reclassify Cebu province from modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) to general community quarantine (GCQ) with heightened restrictions from August 1 to 15.
The national government will deliver 6.5 million doses of COVID-19 jabs to local government units in the National Capital Region (NCR) Plus to intensify mass vaccination efforts.
The Quezon City (QC) Health Department inoculated 595 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Quezon City female dormitory in Camp Karingal on Thursday (July 29).
Israeli health experts in the country to share COVID-19 response best practices said Friday (July 30) that their main recommendation to the Department of Health (DOH) is to continue vaccinating Filipinos.
The Department of Health (DOH) said house-to-house COVID-19 vaccination is a "good strategy" to inoculate more people and to lessen the crowd in vaccination centers.