by Marc Jayson Cayabyab – The Philippine Star, 5 Jan 2022 MANILA, Philippines — At least 40 of 241 employees of the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 tested positive for COVID-19 after they underwent antigen tests on Monday, the MRT-3 management announced yesterday.
by Louella Desiderio – The Philippine Star, 6 Oct 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Over 43,000 public and private establishments have secured safety seal certifications from the government as of this month.
by Robertzon Ramirez – The Philippine Star, 23 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Eight nuns belonging to the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary, more popularly known as the RVM Sisters, have died of COVID-19, an official of the congregation reported yesterday
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by Agence France-Presse, 19 Sep 2021 Exhausted nurses in the country are struggling to care for patients as colleagues contract COVID or quit a profession that was dangerously understaffed even before the pandemic.
by Christian Deiparine – Philstar.com, 9 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines (Updated 5:30 p.m.) — An orphanage in Quezon City dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak disputed reports that an asymptomatic visitor was responsible for bringing in the virus to their facility.
by Elijah Felice Rosales – The Philippine Star, 5 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has released an additional P888.12 million to cover another round of special risk allowances (SRA) for health workers.
by Marc Jayson Cayabyab – The Philippine Star, 30 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — At least 34 senior citizens were transferred yesterday from the Hospicio de San Jose to the nearby Adamson University isolation facility to decongest the number of elderly and children confined in the shelter for COVID-19.
by Mayen Jaymalin – The Philippine Star, 27 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Amid the rising number of COVID-19 patients, St. Luke’s Medical Center (SLMC) in Bonifacio Global City in Taguig is reportedly struggling in attending to patients after some of its health care workers have resigned.
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By: Cathrine Gonzales, INQINQUIRER.net, 26 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — St. Luke’s Medical Center (SLMC) fis acing manpower problems following the resignation of a number of health workers, a facility official said Thursday.
by Robertzon Ramirez (The Philippine Star), 14 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Four nuns from a Carmelite convent in La Paz District in Iloilo City have died of COVID-19.
by Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), 14 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has ordered an investigation after 28 crewmembers of roll-on roll-off vessel MV Saint Anthony de Padua tested positive for COVID-19.
By Maricar Cinco, 5 Jul 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Can private companies charge employees for the vaccines of their dependents? Or should they also shoulder the cost of the additional jabs?
#BantayCOVID19: 20 establisimyento at tanggapan sa Davao City, pansamantalang isasailalim sa lockdown dahil sa mataas na kaso ng COVID-19. | via John Ryan Calonia, Super Radyo Davao pic.twitter.com/buOOVAe5Cx — DZBB Super Radyo (@dzbb) July 2, 2021
by ABS-CBN News, 8 Jun 2021 May ilang mga kawani ng Bureau of Internal Revenue sa Davao City ang nagpositibo sa COVID-19 kaya sinuspinde mula ang ilang transaksiyon sa nasabing tanggapan. DAVAO CITY – Pansamantalang suspendido simula ngayong Martes ang ilang transaksyon na isinasagawa sa tanggapan ng Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Region 19 matapos…
At least 403 employees of a call center in Davao City test positive for COVID-19 — Karlos Manlupig (@kmanlupigINQ) June 7, 2021
by Christina Mendez (The Philippine Star), 6 Jun 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The government will have the budget to finance the grant of hazard pay to all government workers and health care workers in the frontlines battling the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, the Department of Budget and Management said yesterday.
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by Gilbert Bayoran, Emmanuel Tupas (The Philippine Star), 6 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Another policeman has succumbed to COVID-19. Philippine National Police (PNP) deputy chief for administration Lt. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar said a 31-year-old police corporal assigned in Central Luzon died while being treated in a hospital on Monday.
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by Raymund Catindig (The Philippine Star), 28 Apr 2021 TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan, Philippines — Twenty-five employees of the Kalinga Provincial Hospital in Tabuk City, who had received the first dose of their COVID-19 vaccine, were found infected with the virus on Monday.
by Ralph Edwin Villanueva (The Philippine Star), 28 Apr 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The chief of the Muntinlupa health office died yesterday after contracting COVID-19.
By CNN Philippines Staff, 23 Apr 2021 Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 23) – Filipinos working in private and public sectors who contracted the COVID-19 at their workplaces may receive compensation, the Department of Labor and Employment said Friday.
by Ghio Ong (The Philippine Star), 22 Apr 2021 MANILA, Philippines — An official of the Makati Medical Center succumbed to COVID-19 after reportedly getting his first dose of an unnamed vaccine, an official of fhe MMC announced yesterday.
by Philippine Daily Inquirer, 17 Apr 2021 Officials of the Department of Health (DOH) in Cagayan Valley are drawing flak for holding a five-day disaster response training program at a Nueva Vizcaya hotel shortly before Holy Week, a gathering that apparently led to an outbreak of COVID-19 among the participants, most of them newly hired…