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MANILA - The southwest monsoon or "habagat" and a low-pressure area (LPA) will bring some rains mostly to the western section of the country on Saturday. In its 4 a.m. weather bulletin, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said the LPA was last estimated at 825 km. east of Surigao City in Surigao del Norte. Cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms will prevail over Calabarzon, Mimaropa, Bataan, Western Visayas, the Zamboanga Peninsula, the Davao region, Soccsksargen, and the Bangsamoro region, brought by the "habagat". Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms, brought by the southwest monsoon. Winds in the western section of southern Luzon will be moderate to strong and headed southwest, with moderate to rough coastal waters. The rest of the country will have light to moderate winds headed southwest to southeast, with sligh ....
MANILA - The country has logged 51,622 dengue cases from January 1 to June 18, 2022, the Department of Health (DOH) said Monday. In a Viber message to reporters, the DOH noted the figure is 58 percent higher compared to the 32,610 reported cases during the same period last year. Most of the dengue cases were reported in Central Luzon with 6,641 or 13 percent; Central Visayas, 6,361 or 12 percent; and Zamboanga Peninsula, 4,767 or 9 percent. For the period of May 8 to June 18, about 13,075 cases were recorded. Of the tally, 1,826 or 14 percent were from Central Luzon; 1,570 or 12 percent from Central Visayas; and 1,175 or 9 percent from the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). An increasing trend during the same period was also seen in the Mimaropa, Western Visayas, Central Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, Davao Region, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) and CAR. Fifteen out of 17 Regions - Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, Calabarzon, Mimaropa, Bicol Region, Western V ....
MANILA- Cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in the National Capital Region and the rest of Luzon showed a slow uptick trend starting mid-May, a health official said Tuesday. In an online media forum, Department of Health Epidemiology Bureau Director Alethea de Guzman said the cases remained low at less than 100 infections in all island groups since April. "Bagaman mababa na ang ating mga kaso, kelangan i-monitor ang mga pagtaas na ito kahit hindi ito nagta-translate sa pagtaas ng ating national positivity rate na nanatili at 1.1 percent nitong nakaraang linggo (While the cases remain low, the increase in cases must be monitored even if they don't translate to increase in our national positivity rate which remain at 1.1 percent in the past week)," she said. The country and all its regions remained under minimal to low-risk classification. The nation has a positive growth rate of 15 percent from May 10 to 23 with 2,271 active cases. As of May 21, the Covid-19 b ....
Workers in Regions IV-B and XII should expect a raise in minimum wages after the National Wages and Productivity Commission affirmed the wage orders of their respective regional wage boards, the Department of Labor and Employment said Saturday. ....
In a statement, DOLE said the National Wages Productivity Commission met on Friday and "reviewed and affirmed" the wage hikes for the two regions through the issuance of various wage orders. ....