PH Ambassador to India Ramon Bagatsing, Jr. on COVID-19 situation in India: With all these challenges, I think the government will be able to resolve it.
The country has over 19.9 million cases.
PH Ambassador to India on Filipinos in the country: Nagtayo sila ng chat groups sa areas nila. Nakakatuwa, nagrorosaryo at nagdadasal sila together.
PH Ambassador to India: The embassy here is closed but we've established communication with Filipinos... We help them by giving provisions, medicines, repatriation aid.
PH Ambassador to India: Only 20% of Filipinos in India are OFWs
PH Ambassador to India says as of yesterday, 73 Filipinos in India are COVID-positive, adds most of them are mild or moderate cases
PH Ambassador to India: Two Filipinos in India died of COVID-19
PH Ambassador to India: About 60-70 Filipinos expressed desire to return to PH
PH Ambassador to India: Employers of Filipinos who died of COVID-19 are taking care of remains
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@piahontiveros DILG Sec. Eduardo Año on President Duterte's order to arrest people who are not wearing face masks properly: The President is fed up with health protocol violations. cnn.ph/news/2021/5/6/…
@piahontiveros Año says law enforcers will surely implement the President's order.
LOOK: Former DFA Secretary Albert Del Rosario reacts on President Rodrigo Duterte's statement that the arbitral award is a scrap of paper intended for the waste basket. | @TristanNodalo
Amb. Del Rosario: The US, UK, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, EU, Indonesia and other responsible nations believe that the Arbitral Ruling is valid, binding and should be enforced against China pursuant to international law. | @TristanNodalo
Del Rosario: It is, therefore, a national tragedy that the President of the Philippines takes the side of China and believes that the Arbitral Ruling is a scrap of paper meant to be thrown in the waste basket, to the severe prejudice of the Filipino people. | @TristanNodalo
@YsabelwithaWhyy National Task Force Against COVID-19 Chief Implementer Carlito Galvez Jr. on shortage of medical professionals: We have reduced the capacity of producing more college graduates for medical related degrees.
@YsabelwithaWhyy Galvez: We have a brain drain. We have exported more nurses than produced from 2015
LOOK: Retired Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio accepts President Rodrigo Duterte's challenge to debate on the West Philippine Sea issue.
He also says Duterte should 'resign immediately to keep his word of honor' | @TristanNodalo
@TristanNodalo Ret. Justice Carpio: I state under oath that I was never involved in the decision to withdraw PH navy ships from West PH Sea during the 2012 Scarborough standoff | @TristanNodalo
@TristanNodalo Ret. Justice Carpio: I was serving in the Supreme Court at that time and all I knew about the withdrawal of Philippine Navy ships was what I read in the newspapers | @TristanNodalo
Higher tariffs & lower volumes covered by the cheapest import duty may push up the price of frozen pork, Meat Importers and Traders Association president Jess Cham says. He expects ‘a slight increase in retail prices,’ likely 5% to match the tariff increase | @meltlopez
@meltlopez SINAG Chair Rosendo So: “With this lowering of tariff, we hope na ma-transfer ito sa consumer kasi kung hindi maka-transfer sa consumer, parang hindi worth it na ibaba yung taripa" | @meltlopez
Pork Producers Federation VP Nicanor Briones says gov't should quickly implement new import tariffs, adds that first border checks & lab tests must be done on incoming supplies to monitor if these carry new ASF variants and lead to a new outbreak | @meltlopez