The City Government of Davao is set to lift the food and medicine (FM) pass and curfew hours for Davao City starting Monday, August 3, as part of easing things for residence under the general modified community quarantine (MGCQ).
An environmental group is appealing to the public to switch from wearing medical or surgical masks in this pandemic to reusable masks to save the environment.
Local health officials said there have been no applications to their call for health workers for Covid-19 response, as they raise concern on the exhaustion of its personnel.
The Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) has asked the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on COVID-19 to reconsider and suspend its policy requiring barriers for motorcycle back riders.
The head of Region 10’s referral hospital for Covid-19 treatment explained his absence from duty is due to his leave of absence, shooting down speculation that he had resigned over a labor issue with health workers.
The Davao City Council is pushing for the grant of hazard pay for 1,200 barangay health workers (BHW) who had rendered service in combating the Covid-19 pandemic in communities.
A lawmaker from Bukidnon has supported the call for the suspension of emission test for motor vehicles as requirement for registration or renewal amid the new Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
Various groups slammed the new directive issued by the Interagency Task Force on Emerging and Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) which authorizes the Philippine National Police (PNP) to conduct a house-to-house search for new Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients who either are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms.
Health officials in this region did not rule out that Davao region may hit 1,000 cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) infections by the end of July with the rise of cases reported day by day.
The Civil Aviation Authority has issued an advisory last July 16 requiring persons flying in to Davao to present their RT-PCR test results that they are coronavirus (Covid-19) free and safe to travel.
