A labor group questioned the government’s report that the COVID-19 economic relief has reached many workers.
The 270 billion-peso budget allocated by the national government to aid the poorest of the poor amid the COVID-19 pandemic is not enough.
The head of the city government’s business unit resigned for failing to postpone the cockfight derby that had resulted to exposure of more than a dozen participants to COVID-19.
Health officials in Davao Region said the region has yet to peak on coronavirus (COVID-19) infections even as reports of new cases have declined.
Two health workers who finished their night shift at a local hospital waited for nearly an hour at for their ride offered by the city government as the city started its enhanced community quarantine to control the spread of Covid-19.(Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)
Hardly anyone now walks the streets of Davao City after the Regional Task Force announced to implement the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in the entire region 11 on the evening of Saturday, April 4.
Complaints were formally filed against a church leader who allegedly defied government regulations on mass gathering and social distancing by holding worship service, police said Monday (April 6).
A pastor is now facing charges for holding worship service attended by about 500 members on Sunday (Apr. 5), allegedly in defiance of the prohibition of mass gatherings and observance of social distancing amid the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
The Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) has begun on Monday with the testing of more than a hundred frontliners using the gold standard Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machine.
A group of private individuals, including doctors, has petitioned Mayor Oscar Moreno to put the entire city under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) following the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
