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Over 5,000 new contact tracers to be hired, deployed in NCR enablePagination: false (FILE PHOTO) Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 2) — Thousands of new contact tracers will be hired and deployed in the National Capital Region starting this month, The Departments of the Interior and Local Government, Labor and Employment and the Metro Manila Development Authority signed an agreement on Saturday for the hiring, training, and deployment of some 5,754 contact tracers for three months starting May. Last month, Interior Undersecretary Bernardo Florece said they would hire new 4,754 contract t...

(Photo by Jam STA ROSA / AFP) In a news briefing, DILG Undersecretary Bernardo Florece Jr. said the StaySafe.Ph app is currently one of the most effective technical solutions for a more efficient contact tracing system in the country. Managed by the DILG, he said StaySafe.Ph is composed of two parts: the active contact-tracing and the passive contact-tracing. The active contact tracing, according to Florece, is far more important as is geared towards a “very proactive data collection’’ which is very valuable with the use of the StaySafe.Ph application while the passive contact tracing r...

Published April 18, 2021, 2:43 PM Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Sec. Silvestre Bello III has highlighted the reprogrammed nature of the Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) program, which has allowed it to be more responsive to the national government’s needs when it comes to the pandemic. MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO Bello, in a radio interview on Saturday, April 17, said local government units (LGUs) that need additional contract tracers for their anti-coronavirus disease (COVID-19) efforts may start recruiting them under the agency’s TUPAD pr...

Published April 16, 2021, 1:02 PM An additional 4,754 contact tracers will be hired and trained for deployment in Metro Manila starting May 1 to boost the country’s contact tracing efforts and prevent the further spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said Friday, April 16. (JANSEN ROMERO / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) DILG Officer-in-Charge (OIC) Bernardo Florece Jr. said the new contact tracers will be hired under the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) “Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Wo...

Published April 13, 2021, 10:46 AM The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) reported that the agency has not received any complaints so far in relation to the distribution of assistance to residents of Metro Manila and four adjacent provinces which were placed under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) for two weeks. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) In the President’s “Talk to the People’’ Monday night, April 12, DILG office-in-charge (OIC) Bernardo Florece Jr. explained that it was “very easy to monitor and account (the cash aid) since these are being given in cash at...