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Published April 19, 2021, 2:47 PM By Jonathan Hicap, Allysa Nievera, Jaleen Ramos, Carla Bauto Deña, Andrea Kate Aro, Minka Klaudia Tiangco, and Joseph Pedrajas Inspired by the Maginhawa Street, Quezon City community food drive, community pantries have sprouted in Metro Manila and in the provinces with the aim of giving food and supplies to everyone in need.  Community pantries in (clockwise from top left) in Putatan, Muntinupa; Intramuros, Manila; San Pablo City, Laguna; Sampaloc, Manila; an...

Published April 19, 2021 9:12pm Hope springs from visible corners of communities in various parts of the country offering food and other essential goods to needy families bearing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic. The community pantry that started in Maginhawa Street in Quezon has been replicated in many areas, and more low-income families have found sources for their daily sustenance. In a "24 Oras" report of Tina Panganiban-Perez, two spouses of sickened husbands received food from c...

SunStar + April 18, 2021 THE Philippines’ fixed broadband average download speed continued its surge for March 2021, according to the Ookla Speedtest Global Index report. The country registered 7.79 Mbps, or a 20.25 percent increase in speed from the recorded 38.46 Mbps in February, jumping to 46.25 Mbps for this month. “The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) shall continue to support and monitor the performance of telecommunications companies (telco...

  Philip Cu Unjieng Perusing the social media posts of the week, I was struck by how so many were decrying the lack of any National Vaccination Plan or recovery plan for the sorry state in which this recent unabated upsurge in COVID-19 cases has left us in. There were also fearful posts reporting the number of NCR hospitals and medical care centers whose COVID wards were full, and unable to accept any new patients. It got to the point where we were now being invited to all these webinars about...

April 17, 2021 THE number of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases in Cebu City has gone down in the last two weeks. According to City Councilor Joel Garganera, deputy chief implementer of the City’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC), the decrease of Covid-19 cases during this period was the reason fewer recoveries were recorded in the last three days. Based on the data of the Department of Health (DOH) 7, the city logged only 17 recoveries in the last three days, or 12 on Ap...

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has denounced the “growing culture of impunity and violence in our society” which victimizes even youth leaders “who play vital role in nation-building.”

By JOVILAND RITA, GMA News Published April 16, 2021 8:41am Updated April 16, 2021 9:14am The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on Emerging Infectious Diseases approved on Thursday the list of sectors included in the Priority Group A4 of the government’s COVID-19 vaccination plan, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque announced on Friday. According to Roque, the list includes people in the sectors and industries of transportation, market, manufacturing, government services, hotels, educat...

Published April 16, 2021, 10:52 AM The government has allowed national athletes to continue their “bubble” training for the upcoming Olympics but must strictly follow health and safety precautions to prevent any coronavirus transmission. In a latest resolution, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) particularly wanted the athletes to reduce interaction with persons outside the training bubble as part of the precaution against the outbreak. A T...

SunStar (Contributed via Third Anne Peralta-Malonzo) + April 16, 2021 THE Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases has approved Priority Group A4 of the national deployment and vaccination plan to address the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. In a resolution approved on Thursday, April 15, 2021, the frontline workers in the following sectors are included in Group A4, in order: Commuter transport (land, air, and sea), including lo...

BusinessWorld April 16, 2021 | 6:16 pm https://www.gfni.com.ph DITO Telecommunity Corp. expanded its services to 21 more cities on Friday, adding the provinces of Laguna and Cavite to its network, the company said. The country’s third telco player started commercial operations in 15 cities in Visayas and Mindanao on March 8, with plans to expand to nationwide availability by June. The expansion includes 18 Luzon cities in Batangas, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, Tarlac, and Nueva Ec...