The municipality of San Miguel has recorded four cases of African swine fever (ASF) and has been put under a state of calamity. San Miguel Mayor Marina Luz Gorriceta, in a phone interview on Tuesday, said they have identified the ground zero in Barangay San Jose and all hogs within a 1 km. radius would be quarantined. “We have established the .5 radius (kilometer) and they will be visited to subject them to test,” Gorriceta said. Acting on the reported spillover of ASF, Iloilo Governor Arthur Defensor Jr. on Tuesday afternoon signed Executive Order 460-A expanding the
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday said transmission logs in connection with the May 9 national and local polls are available before the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on the Automated Election System (JCOC-AES). Comelec spokesperson John Rex Laudiangco said those who are asking for a copy of such data can secure it with the said committee. “This is a voluminous document so we cannot just give it to anyone asking for it. It is better if they get it from the JCOC as this has been submitted under oath and are, therefore, considered as official,” he said
An alternative Korean Air plane departed for the Philippines on Tuesday to bring home passengers stranded after another plane run by the air carrier overran the airport runway in Cebu. A Boeing 777 plane left Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, around noon, on a mission to return with the passengers and crew members from the Mactan-Cebu International Airport, Korean Air Lines Co. said. The plane was scheduled to take off from Cebu at 4:20 p.m. (local time) and arrive back in Incheon at 9:40 p.m., the air carrier said. On Sunday, a Korean Air plane carrying
The social arm of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has appealed to the people to ensure that the environment is protected by having a “garbage-free” commemoration of Undas (All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day). Fr. Antonio Labiao Jr, executive secretary of NASSA/Caritas Philippines, said as good stewards of Mother Nature, the people should show appreciation and care for the environment while remembering their departed loved ones. “It’s our shared responsibility to ensure that our environment, which includes us all, is protected against practices that pollute and degrade it. Let’s make our cemeteries trash-free,” the
An estimated 1 million people die from lead poisoning annually and millions more, many of them children, are exposed to low levels of lead, causing lifelong health problems, the World Health Organization said on Monday. The health effects from lead poisoning include anemia, hypertension, immunotoxicity, and toxicity to the reproductive organs, the WHO said in a statement, marking the 10th International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week (ILPPW). WHO said the neurological and behavioral effects of lead could be “irreversible.” “Lead exposure is especially dangerous to children’s developing brains and can result in reduced intelligence quotient (IQ), attention span,
At least 33 more displaced transport workers in Central Luzon have received livelihood assistance from the government. The assistance is under the government’s “EnTSUPERneur” program, which is jointly implemented by the Department of Transportation and the Department of Labor and Employment to provide alternative sources of income for public transport drivers and operators affected by the route rationalization and local public transport route plan of the PUV modernization program. Nasrudin Talipasan, head of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) 3 (Central Luzon), said Tuesday the livelihood packages given to the beneficiaries were rice retailing, sari-sari stores,
