The Department of Trade and Industry is banking on the five-day "Bagsakan Fair 2022: Panublion sa Western Visayas" to help micro, small and medium enterprises in the region recover from the impact of the health pandemic.
Active cases of Covid-19 in Negros Occidental have decreased by 93.23 percent within February, based on the series of data released by the Provincial Incident Management Team.
The province of Antique has lifted the Safe, Swift, and Smart Passage Travel Management System (S-PaSS) requirement for fully vaccinated tourists and returning residents.
The Department of Health noted a significant drop in new Covid-19 cases in Eastern Visayas in the past two weeks as the government continues to ramp up the vaccination rollout.
Local government units in Region 7 should strive to ramp up the inoculation of senior citizens to meet the requirements for the Alert Level 1 or the new normal category of quarantine restrictions, a health official said.
Fifty micro-entrepreneurs from Iloilo are recipients of sari-sari store kits under the Livelihood Seeding Program-Negosyo Serbisyo sa Barangay of the Department of Trade and Industry.
The Iloilo City local government will be ready to face the new normal once the 76-bed modular hospital complies with the additional health requirements.