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PASIG CITY,  March 10  – The Global Teaching InSights (GTI), an Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) platform, recognized a public school teacher from the Philippines for her initiative called Project I Commit to Global Citizenship Education through Online Newspaper (PIGEON). Master Teacher II Noemi Baysa from Malabon National High School introduced PIGEON to the Schools Division of Malabon to empower youth knowledge on local, national, and global issues through onl...

Published March 9, 2021 9:21am Updated March 9, 2021 9:42am An expert from the OCTA Research group on Tuesday said the daily new cases of COVID-19 in the National Capital Region (NCR) may reach 5,000 by March 31 as the projected reproduction number may have already increased. OCTA Research’s Dr. Guido David said the estimated reproduction number or Rt may have already increased to 1.8. “Actual cases are now beating projections. Reproduction number in NCR estimated to be around 1.8. T...

Published March 9, 2021, 11:38 AM The local government of Malabon City has reported a surge in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, including the more transmissible United Kingdom (U.K.) variant which was detected in a three-year-old boy and two senior citizens. Bong Padua, the city’s head of public information office, said Tuesday they saw a “rapid increase” in the number of its new virus cases after it reached 549 on Monday, March 8, from only around 25 to 30 cases in January. (MANILA ...

SunStar (SunStar Davao File) March 09, 2021 THE health systems in two cities in Metro Manila have reached a critical level while three other cities and Davao Occidental are at high risk, and eight areas, including Cebu Province and two cities in Cebu, are at moderate risk. Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III on Monday, March 8, 2021, confirmed that hospital admissions were rising as cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) have continued to increase in Cala...

Reporters THE PHILIPPINE government will deploy more policemen on the streets to enforce health protocols amid a fresh surge in coronavirus infections in Manila, the capital, and nearby cities, according to the Interior and Local Government department. About 180 more cops had been deployed in Pasay City to help local authorities enforce quarantine rules, Interior Undersecretary Jonathan E. Malaya told a televised news briefing on Tuesday. More cops will be sent to the cities of Navotas and Mala...

The number of COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila could reach an average of 3,000 daily by the end of March, the independent OCTA Research Team has warned.

BusinessWorld March 8, 2021 | 8:30 pm Reporter THE DEPARTMENT of Health (DoH) reported 3,356 coronavirus infections on Monday, bringing the total to 597, 763. The death toll rose to 12,521 after five more patients died, while recoveries increased by 61 to 545, 912, it said in a bulletin. There were 39,330 active cases, 2% of which were critical, 91.2% were mild, 4% did not show symptoms, 2% were severe and 0.83% were moderate. DoH said five duplicates had been removed from the t...

SMC to start Pasig River cleanup in April enablePagination: false (FILE PHOTO) Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 8) — San Miguel Corporation will begin cleanup operations of the Pasig River in April, aiming to extract approximately 600,000 tons of garbage per year for the next five years. In a release on Monday, SMC said it would work with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the Department of Public Works and Highways, among others, to clean up the waterway with the targe...

Published March 8, 2021, 11:56 AM The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) ordered on Monday, March 8, all local government units (LGUs) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) to implement a crackdown on all quarantine violators and strictly enforce health protocols in all barangays. (JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN) Specifically, DILG officer-in-charge (OIC) Bernardo C. Florece, Jr. asked Joint Task Force Shield Commander Police Lt. Gen. Cesar Hawthorne Binag to increase po...

Press Release March 9, 2021 Mr. President, my dear colleagues, I rise on a matter of personal and collective privilege. Last week, on March 3, World Wildlife Day was celebrated. It was designated as such in 1973 during the Sixty-sixth Session of the United Nations General Assembly in commemoration of the adoption of CITES or the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. The theme of this years celebration was "Forests and Livelihood: Sustaining People and ...