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Cash aid distribution extended by one week – DILG

April 30, 2020

The government is giving some local government units up to one week to complete the distribution of cash assistance to low income families, an official said on Thursday. Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año said that his

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France to provide funding to RITM, six other labs

April 30, 2020

France on Thursday said the Philippines’ Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) will be among six other Southeast Asian frontline laboratories to get funding under  a €2-million ECOMORE II project through the French Development Agency (AFD). The Embassy of France, in a

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NEDA sees positive growth in Q1; economy may lose up to P1.1 trillion this year

April 30, 2020

The Philippines may have posted a positive growth in the first quarter of this year despite the eruption of the Taal volcano and the ongoing coronavirus disease pandemic, Acting National Economic and Development Authority Director General Karl Kendrick Chua said

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PNP chief to give P10,000 to cops who passed bar exams

April 30, 2020

The chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) on Thursday said he will give a separate incentive of P10,000 to each police personnel who passed the 2019 Bar examination. “That amount represents your wardrobe allowance when you take your oath

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276 new cases raise COVID-19 new cases to 8,488

April 30, 2020

Two hundred and seventy-six new cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were reported Thursday by the Department of Health (DOH), bringing the tally to 8,488. Ten new fatalities were recorded raising total deaths to 568. Twenty patients recovered, placing the

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PNP opens emergency quarantine facility

April 30, 2020

The Philippine National Police on Thursday opened its Emergency Quarantine Facility (EQF) to help their police personnel as the number of their confirmed infected of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) rise to 96. According to Police General Archie Francisco Gamboa, PNP chief,

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Religious gathering, work in gov’t in areas under GCQ allowed, subject to certain conditions – IATF

April 30, 2020

The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases has decided to allow religious gathering and work in government at full operational capacity in areas under the general community quarantine starting May 1. In a virtual press briefing

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PNP discouraging groups to hold traditional Labor Day rally

April 30, 2020

The chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) on Thursday discouraged those who will stage a public assembly and mass action in commemoration of Labor Day as they might face arrest for violating the enhanced community quarantine. “We are aware

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