THE Department of Health advised the public to isolate or do self-quarantine even at the slightest suspicion or symptoms of COVID-19 to protect themselves and their loved ones.

ANTI-GAMBLING crusader Archbishop Oscar Cruz died on Wednesday.

AN official of the Department of Health yesterday said they could not say the COVID-19 curve in the country will flatten in September as projected by some experts from the University of the Philippines.

TO ensure that individuals who tested positive for COVID-19 will be immediately informed of their condition and would not infect others unknowingly, the Philippine Red Cross will now be releasing positive results directly to the individuals tested.

THE Department of Labor and Employment yesterday clarified that the ban on the deployment of nurses has not been lifted.

THE Department of Labor and Employment announced that President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the release of an additional P5 billion for the repatriation and assistance to overseas Filipino workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

HEALTH Secretary Francisco T. Duque III assured healthcare workers that he would put forward to the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases the medical frontliners’ suggestion that Metro Manila be once again placed under enhanced community quarantine amid the continued rise in the number of COVID-19 cases.

THE Department of Health yesterday said the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic is yet to hit the Philippines despite the increase in the number of cases in the country.

THE Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines has refuted claims that is meddling in state affairs or pressuring the high court to rule against the controversial anti-terrorism law.

PUBLIC Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar, who was recently announced as the government’s isolation czar for the coronavirus pandemic, has tested positive for the disease.

AS the world continues to battle with the Coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 pandemic, Senator Richard J. Gordon, chairman and CEO of the Philippine Red Cross stressed that testing at least 13% of the population is key to getting the economy going again.

THE World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund have expressed their support for the Department of Health’s response to the coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 pandemic.

THE Vatican embassy in Manila has warned the bishops on persons and groups using the name of Pope Francis to mislead the public.

“Those who worked shall be paid 200 percent of their regular salary for the first eight hours, and if they worked overtime, they shall be paid an additional 30 percent of their hourly rate,” Labor Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III said in an advisory.

THE Batangas provincial government yesterday officially turned over the Batangas Isolation Facility for Persons Deprived of Liberty to the Department of Health – CALABARZON (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) located in Barangay Malainin at the town of Ibaan, Batangas.