“In an emergency, you see the weaknesses of a mayor because they don’t know the bureaucracy or global problems.You cannot really replicate [because] the dynamics of the national level are different."
Devotees of the Child Jesus are invited to join the fiesta masses online on Sunday, Jan. 16, in observance of the Feast of the Santo Niño.
Santo Niño de Tondo (Facebook image)
Following the surge in coronavirus cases in the country, traditional festivities held every third Sunday of January
(PNA file photo) MANILA - Amid the rising coronavirus disease 1019 (Covid-19) infections in the National Capital Region (NCR), the city government of Manila has prohibited all physical activities related to the upcoming celebration of the Sto. Nino Fiesta in Tondo and Pandacan. Manila Mayor Francisco 'Isko Moreno' Domagoso said during a press conference on Thursday the same prohibition done during the feast of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo will also be applied for the upcoming Sto. Nino fiesta, which is considered second to the largest religious feast in the city. Domagoso signed Executive Order (EO) No. 04 that prohibits religious processions, street parties, stage shows, parades, palarong kalye or street games, ati-atihan and the likes, and other forms of public gatherings during the feast of Santo Nino de Tondo and Santo Nino de Pandacan held every third Sunday of January. He said the decision to prohibit all physical activities and mass gatherings during the event is needed
The total number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the Philippines surpassed the three million-mark, even as the daily number of new cases went down by more than 5,000 from the previous day to 28,007.
And with the raging Omicron-fueled COVID-19 surge, the government said it was setting a