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In a press briefing, Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said that the government was already piloting face-to-face classes among HEIs.
“We are in the process of piloting limited face-to-face among higher learning institutions and so far it has very good results,” he said Friday.
The Inter-agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases has allowed the conduct of face-to-face classes among medical schools and allied medical professional schools.
According to Roque, the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH), the first HEI to have face-to-face classes during the ongoing lockdown, showed good results.
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QUEZON CITY, Mar. 6 (PIA) The University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) asks for additional 3,000 Sinovac vaccines for their personnel as many had themselves vaccinated more than what was on the initial list, said Presidential Spokesperson Secretary Harry Roque Jr. during the March 4 press briefing.
Initially, only 1,200 UP-PGH frontline healthcare workers had their names included in the vaccination priority list, he added.
UP-PGH COVID Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Nurse-III Mai Anne Del Monte of the Philippine General was vaccinated on the first day of roll-out shared in the same briefing that she herself got vaccinated because she know that the vaccine can help protect her from COVID-19.
The Department of Tourism (DOT) expresses support for Coron’s sustainable tourism development to draw more visitors and hasten tourism recovery. Photo by DOT.
CORON, Palawan, Mar. 5 The Department of Tourism (DOT) expresses support for Coron’s sustainable tourism development to draw more visitors and hasten tourism recovery.
“Giving our recovery plans for Coron a major boost is the Sustainable Tourism Development Project or STDP, which will be launched this year and will run throughout 2026,” Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat remarked during the dialogue with stakeholders on Thursday, March 04, banking on the able leadership of Mayor Marjo Reyes, local industry captains and community beacons to provide the impetus for this high-impact project.