The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) wants the National Capital Region (NCR) placed under a less stringent form of quarantine when the two-week enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) expires on August 20.
The Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) should investigate companies that illegally insist on “no vaccine, no work” for their employees and job seekers despite the official prohibition against such policy
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MANILA, Philippines The Department of Health (DOH) assumes a community transmission of the highly infectious Delta variant is already happening in the country despite the lack of enough sequenced samples it can show as proof and allow officials to make a formal declaration.
“We assume there is community transmission already…. [We] are going to [take] actions toward this direction that there is already community transmission,” Health
Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said in a television interview on Tuesday.
She noted an “exponential rise” in the weekly average of COVID-19 cases in the past 14 days: from 7,000 to 8,000 compared to 5,000 to 6,000 in the previous week. Based on this, the government projected a range of 18,000 to 30,000 active cases by the end of September, although Vergeire said they would release a revised projection due to changes in the current trend.
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