Published December 29, 2020, 8:08 AM
• VP Robredo has been playing an active role in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic since the onset of the outbreak in March.
• The Vice President’s initiatives include assisting frontliners by raising over P60 million to provide them with personal protective equipment (PPE) sets, test kits, hot meals, dormitories, and free shuttle service.
• Donors and volunteers from all walks of life responded to the VP’s call through an online “bayanihan” (community cooperation), some walked into the VP’s office donating a variety of items for relief packages, others offered to be volunteers.
• The pandemic is the time to be united and set aside politics, she stressed.
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File December 29, 2020 FOREIGN travelers arriving from or transiting through 19 countries, aside from the United Kingdom (UK), will not be allowed to enter the Philippines beginning 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, December 30, 2020.
Filipino citizens with travel history in UK or in any of the 19 countries within 14 days preceding arrival in the Philippines will be allowed to enter the country, but will be required to undergo an absolute facility-based 14-day quarantine regardless of RT-PCR test results.
The prohibition, which is aimed at blocking the more contagious UK variant of Sars-CoV-2, will last until January 15, 2021. Sars-CoV-2 causes coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
Malacañang said the prohibition covers UK and the following countries:
SunStar No expired test kits sent to labs, DOH says
HAWAII. In this photo taken in March 2020, a microbiologist tests a sample for Sars-CoV-2 in Hawaii’s Department of Health laboratory. (File)
+ December 29, 2020 THE Department of Health (DOH) has debunked the claims of Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong and stressed that no expired coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) test kits were sent by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) to the city. The DOH and RITM clarifies (sic) that, based on delivery records and documents, no expired testing kits were released to any laboratory, the DOH said in a statement.
The agency said, however, that its Covid-19 Laboratory Network Project Management Unit (PMU) is developing a more efficient and focused logistics process to ensure that test kits are delivered before their expiry dates.
President Rodrigo Duterte during a meeting with Cabinet members late night of Dec. 28, 2020. Contributed photo
A memorandum released by Malacañang on Tuesday said that aside from the United Kingdom, the travel ban will cover Denmark, Ireland, Japan, Australia, Israel, The Netherlands, Hong Kong, Switzerland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Lebanon, Singapore, Sweden, South Korea, South Africa, Canada and Spain.
On Saturday, Duterte extended the travel ban imposed on all flights from the UK for two weeks.
The order will take effect from Dec. 30 to Jan. 15, 2021.
Filipino citizens coming from the countries mentioned can enter the Philippines, but they should undergo a 14-day quarantine period.