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EDUCATIONAL AID. Albina Cabel, 74, shows the PHP2,000 educational aid she received from the Department of Social Welfare and Development for her grade-schooler grandchild on Sept. 17, 2022. Cabel says she will use the money to buy her grandchild's educational needs. (Photo courtesy of DSWD-11) DAVAO CITY -- Some PHP80 million have been disbursed for the educational payout in Davao Region from Aug. 20 to Sept. 17, the regional Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD-11) office said...

CASH AID. One of the beneficiaries of the DSWD educational assistance in Bicol. The agency distributed a total of PHP18.2 million during the second payout on Saturday (Aug. 27, 2022) (Image courtesy of DSWD-Bicol) LEGAZPI CITY - A total of 5,871 more students in the Bicol Region received educational cash assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) over the weekend. In an advisory on Tuesday, the agency said it distributed some PHP18.2 million worth of cash aid under t...

MANILA-The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said there are no more reported granular lockdown areas in the country. "Mr. President, from April 10 up to 16, for the first time there were no recorded granular lockdowns in the whole Philippines," DILG Secretary Eduardo Ano said during the Cabinet meeting with President Rodrigo R. Duterte which was aired by PTV-4 Monday night. Last week, Ano said six areas were under granular lockdowns with authorities continuing to i...

(PNA file photo) MANILA-The Philippines has already administered a total of 143,036,759 doses of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccines, with 66,230,305 adult Filipinos or 73 percent of the country's target coverage for population protection now fully vaccinated. The latest data from the National Task Force (NTF) against Covid showed that of the total fully vaccinated, only 12,208,931 eligible individuals, or only 17 percent of the target population have availed of the booster shots or...

(File photo) MANILA - The Philippine National Police (PNP) will deploy some 17,000 personnel in "places of convergence" nationwide to secure travelers for the Lenten season and the summer months. PNP spokesperson, Col. Jean Fajardo, in a television interview Friday, said help desks and police assistance posts will be set up in key tourist destinations and major streets leading to it. Of the number, some 5,000 personnel will be deployed as tourist police on foot and bike patrol in areas...

SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union - Some 23,213 teaching and non-teaching personnel of the Department of Education (DepEd) in Ilocos Region have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) as of November 23. In a phone interview on Thursday, Dr. Romarie Castillo, medical officer and education support services of DepEd Ilocos, said of the total number, 19,680 are teachers while the 3,533 are non-teaching personnel. She said 537 are under A1 category or workers in essential health ...

PEDIATRIC JAB. Em Ang, executive director of the Emergency Operations Center-Task Force and coordinator of the Covid-19 Vaccination Council, administers the Pfizer shot on a minor with comorbidity during the launch of the pediatric A3 vaccination at the Riverside College annex building in Bacolod City on Friday (Oct. 29, 2021). Mayor Evelio Leonardia (left) led city officials in witnessing the rollout of the inoculation for minors.(Photo courtesy of Bacolod City PIO) BACOLOD CITY - The city gove...

MANILA - The country's total number of recovered coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases has reached 2,654,173 after 7,312 new recoveries were reported on Sunday. In its 4 p.m. case bulletin, the Department of Health (DOH) said recoveries account for 96.3 percent of the total case count which has reached 2,756,923 since the start of the pandemic last year. Meanwhile, some 5,279 new infections brought the total number of active cases nationwide to 60,957. About 77.5 percent of these active ...

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