The business sector is appealing to the government to place Metro Manila under Alert Level 3 starting October to allow them to recover financial losses brought by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Senators dismissed yesterday President Duterte’s latest tirades against the Senate and vowed not to be intimidated or distracted from continuing its probe on alleged anomalies in the administration’s procurement of COVID-19 supplies.

As New York enforced its COVID-19 deadline for unvaccinated health workers, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed yesterday an executive order waiving existing regulations and allowing licensed medical professionals in other countries, including the Philippines, to practice in New York to ease anticipated staffing shortages in hospitals and nursing homes.

It’s been 18 months already since our entire country has been under a state of public health emergency due to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

The government had previously allowed some medical and health-related programs to hold classroom sessions, subject to pandemic precautions.