(OCTA RESEARCH) Hospital intensive care unit (ICU) occupancy rates in nine cities in Luzon and Visayas have already reached "critical" levels due to rising coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the country, OCTA Research's latest monitoring report on Tuesday, Aug. 10, showed. The areas that logg
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DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña said the DOST-Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) pushed for the use of hydroponics and vegetable gardening technologies to alleviate COVID-19 threats to food security in selected municipalities in Calabarzon.
The project is part of the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development’s (DOST-PCAARRD) “GALING-PCAARRD Kontra COVID-19 program.”
The DOST-Calabarzon embarked on the farming project through the Provincial Science and Technology Centers (PSTC) of Cavite and Rizal.
“Under this project, DOST-PSTC Rizal programmed various training and seminars on farming and provided modern farm tools and equipment for the members of the Angono New Normal Farmers’ Association (ANNFA),” de la Peña said in a report.
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In a statement, the CHR said those responsible for the beating of Ernanie Lumban who died thereafter must be held accountable.
“It is strongly condemnable that the curfew policy, which is supposed to protect our right to health, became the reason for the deprivation of the utmost right to life,” the CHR said through Spokesperson Jacqueline Anne de Guia.n a she added.
De Guia even said that beating a person over a minor offense may be tantamount to torture, as doing so is “an attack on human dignity.”
“Such excessive punishment can be considered as grave abuse of authority and those who shall be proven to have committed an overreach must be held accountable,” she said.
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+ April 11, 2021 THE photo shows a prosaic scene from a government-sponsored training: men and women listening to a speaker inside a cavernous multi-purpose building.
Only the facial masks and spaced apart seats allude to the pandemic that continues as participants from six Cebu City barangays trained as first responders in disaster response with the Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (CDRRMO).
Filipino man dies after being forced to perform hundreds of squats for breaking COVID-19 curfew near Manila John Bacon, USA TODAY
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Philippine authorities are investigating the death of a 28-year-old man forced to perform nearly 300 squat exercises after officials say he broke local COVID-19 curfew rules last week.
Darren Manaog Peñaredondo, 28, was apprehended by village watchmen on April 1 in General Trias City, south of Manila, while he was buying water after 6 p.m. The curfew lasts from 6 p.m. until 5 a.m.
Reichelyn Balce said her husband was ordered to perform the exercises with others. Her husband had a heart condition and could barely walk when he got home the next day, she said.