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As part of the government’s efforts to ramp up contact tracing, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said that some 4,754 new contact tracers will be hired…

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will give the Philippines an additional $3.5 million to support the rollout of vaccines obtained from the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Initiative…

Cebu Pacific is discontinuing its call center operations next month in line with efforts to speed up its digital transformation and improve overall customer experience. Digital transformation has been predicted many…

President Rodrigo Duterte has lifted a moratorium on new mineral agreements, allowing the government to enter into new mineral agreements, provided that these would comply with the country’s mining laws,…

A total of 35.5 million workers are targeted to be inoculated against COVID-19 after the government simplified the A4 category or the essential workers group, the National Economic and Development…

The temporary suspension on the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has been lifted with an assurance that they would not be shouldering…

Areas currently under general community quarantine (GCQ) cannot yet shift to the more relaxed modified general community quarantine (MGCQ), according to Health Secretary Francisco Duque III.  From May 15 to…

National Capital Region (NCR) Plus hospitals have committed to assigning additional intensive care unit (ICU) beds for COVID-19 patients, amidst the uncertainties in the status of the quarantine restrictions in…

Kai Sotto is Smart Communications’ newest brand ambassador. The telecommunication company choose him to bring inspiration to the next generation of Filipino athletes through his fast-rising international basketball career and…

According to the National Task Force (NTF) against COVID-19, it is expected to see a drop in the country’s COVID-19 cases by October or November, once most of the people…