Workers from Ormoc City benefited from the PHP12.14 million worth of livelihood and emergency employment assistance awarded recently by the Department of Labor and Employment.
A lawmaker urged the secretary of the newly-created Department of Migrant Workers to immediately set up an online database system to track and deliver timely legal and welfare services to overseas Filipino workers.
The government will hold targeted national vaccination days in the Bangsamoro region and Cebu province next week to ramp up the country's inoculation coverage, a health official said.
The Philippines on Saturday received 1.2 million doses of Pfizer vaccine that would be used for pediatric inoculation, the National Task Force against Covid-19 said.
Senatorial candidate and Sorsogon Governor Francis Escudero III welcomed the resumption of face-to-face classes across the country, citing studies that remote learning was not effective as it should be.
Presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. said Filipinos are now more understanding on issues concerning the LGBTQ community despite the Philippines being a religious country.