A health official on Tuesday said the National Capital Region would be placed under Alert Level 4 at the start of the pilot run of granular lockdowns on Sept. 16, citing the continued high number of Covid-19 cases in the region.
The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases has yet to decide on the proposal to give medical front-liners a booster shot for an added protection against the Covid-19, Malacañang said Tuesday.
A lawmaker at the House of Representatives on Tuesday pushed for monthly incentive allowances to public school teachers assigned outside their respective cities, municipalities and provinces.
The Commission on Elections is looking to finish refurbishing the over 97,700 vote counting machines in November that will be used in next year's elections.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development has extended various forms of assistance to nearly three million individuals in crisis situations since the pandemic started in the country.
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President Rodrigo Duterte raised the possibility that the vaccination of the general population against the coronavirus might proceed in October, once the country gets a “stable” supply of the coronavirus jabs.