READY. The Philippine Coast Guard Station in Ilocos Norte is on alert for Tropical Storm Karding on Saturday (Sept. 24, 2022). All Coast Guard deployable response groups and quick response teams are on standby to assist in evacuation or rescue operations. (Courtesy of PCG) MANILA - The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) Operations Center has been on "red alert" since Friday night as Tropical Storm Karding is expected to affect large parts of the country this weekend. The NDRRMC also activated its Emergency Operations Center management team on Saturday. The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), meanwhile, sent out advisories to affected local governments for preemptive evacuations of communities in high-risk areas. Quick Response Funds worth PHP517.03 million are on standby at the Department of Social Welfare and Development. Also prepositioned are 542,950 family food packs worth PHP323.84 million and another PHP674.39 million wo
Secretary jen psaki. fewer tests, less surveillance for future variants, and a risk of running short on vaccines for months, we have been engaging congress about our needs for additional covid response funds. just to give you a few examples? january we notified consequence responding to the unprecedented surge would exhaust our funds. throughout february we held briefings about the lack of funding and what the consequences would be if we didn t get additional funds. in the state of the union ago, the president called for additional covid funding. our national preparedness plan made clear additional futuring is needed. in total more than three dozens calls and meetings with congress, and at least ten briefings to committees to communicate our needs, so we can do what their americans expect
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BY JOSHUA CHISA MBELE
Out All politicians and All those serving politicians are the same world over.What complicates things in my country is that we have NO politicians BUT petty & hardened criminals masquerading as politicians.Plunder of Covid Funds is a pandemic in itself.
Wherever there is a genuine crisis and public resources are mobilized, more thieves emerge.
In South Africa, more famous people closer to power have fallen from grace. Looting. Collusion. Circumvention. Fraud. Racketeering. Money laundering.
South Africa being South Africa, most of them were exposed, investigated, prosecuted. Some were those serving in the office of the President.