The United States government, through the US Agency for International Development, provides an additional PHP73 million (USD1.5 million) in food assistance to support displaced families in Lanao del Sur province.
According to Mayor Ronnel Rivera, they are now studying such option as they continue to look at necessary control measures amid the continuing clustering and local transmission of COVID-19.
Work at the municipal hall of Tboli town in South Cotabato province has been suspended for at least five days effective October 12 due to the increasing cases of the COVID-19 in the area.
The new 80-bed capacity isolation center has a molecular laboratory equipped with PHP15 million worth of RT-PCR machines that have a capacity to test 1,000 persons daily.
Mayor Joseph Evangelista says that police teams will be deployed in cemeteries to prohibit people from visiting to commemorate All Souls’ Day on November 2.