The camp of Vice President Leni Robredo on Wednesday asked administration officials why problems are besetting the pandemic response if President Duterte knows what it takes to lead the country.
President Rodrigo Duterte & Vice President Leni Robredo
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The Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) and the Commission on Population (PopCom), in a dissemination forum on Wednesday, Feb. 17, sounded the alarm on adolescent pregnancy and other top concerns of women in the Philippines during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
Last week, the data from the civil registry on pregnancy of “very young adolescents” in 2019 was released.
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), through POPCOM, said that a total of 62,510 children gave birth in 2019.
Of these, seven very young adolescents or those between 10-14 years gave birth per day, or a total of 2,411 for the year.
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“We have submitted to Malacañang the resolution by the MAV (minimum access volume) advisory council, recommending to increase the MAV for pork for 2021,” Agriculture Secretary William Dar said during the House joint committees on Agriculture and Food and Trade and Industry hearing on rising pork prices on Tuesday
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Recognizing the huge number of seven million eggs it generates daily, Senator Cynthia A. Villar on Tuesday sought to name the town of San Jose in Batangas as the “Egg Basket of the Philippines.”
Villar, chairperson of the Senate committee on Agriculture and Food, filed Senate Bill No. 2044, or “An Act Declaring the Municipality of San Jose in the Province of Batangas as the Egg Basket of the Philippines,” to support her proposal.
She cited Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) report showing that of the 49.09,000 metric tons of eggs coming from CALABARZON region, 705 metric tons of eggs are from San Jose, Batangas on a daily basis.