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Senior citizens (60 years old and above) who are still working as well as those living alone will be allowed to go out in areas classified under general community quarantine (GCQ) starting May 1, according to the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).

Senator Bong Go urged that the Balik Probinsiya Program (BPP) be made “top priority” when the country adopts a “new normal” after the COVID-19 pandemic.

A US Navy guided-missile destroyer sailed through waters near the Paracel islands in the South China Sea challenging China’s claim to the area, the Navy said.

To help in the fight against COVID-19, cement manufacturer Holcim Philippines, Inc. (HPI) is shifting its corporate citizenship budget to provide medical supplies to hospitals assigned to treat coronavirus patients and relief items to its affected communities. 

Manila Water has partnered with the Ayala Group and other companies in converting the World Trade Center (WTC) into a fully operational healthcare and quarantine facility for COVID-19 patients.

The country’s consumer outlook remained positive for the first quarter (Q1) of 2020, even as the overall confidence index (CI) remained positive although marginally lower at 1.26% from 1.31% for Q4 2019.

To help ease the condition of patients diagnosed with coronavirus-19 (COVID-19), Hanabishi partnered with the longest-running noontime variety show Eat Bulaga (EB) in donating electric fans to Pasig City Children’s Hospital (PCCH).

Traditional organizational archives today are slowly becoming extinct. Gone are the dusty, dim-lit storage rooms, floor to ceiling shelves full of paper and stacks of cardboard boxes bursting with files and folders.  Enterprises are learning to effectively manage the growing mass of documents they generate and use modern scanning technology to digitally archive vital documents fast and efficiently.

Researchers have recently manifested renewed interest in an old medical treatment for modern applications: convalescent plasma therapy. 

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is conducting clinical trials to check the efficacy of virgin coconut oil (VCO) as health supplement against COVID-19.