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Office of Civil Defense leads distribution of Bottled Water
The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) led by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDDRMC) Undersecretary Ricardo Jalad, activated the pre-agreement with United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) ARISE Philippines network and partner Nature Spring, with the 1st batch delivery of 43,000 SM Bottled Water to various frontliners in Metro Manila, […]
#FlattenTheCurve: Effects of Exposure Risk Reduction and Quarantine Policies on COVID-19 Local Transmission Rates in the Philippines 20 MAR
Source: Publicus Asia | Date: March 20, 2020 The Chief Data Scientist and top policy strategists of PUBLiCUS Asia, Inc. (PAI) have collaborated to publish Competitive Intelligence (CompIntel) Report No. 1, Series of 2020 titled “#FlattenTheCurve: Effects of Exposure Risk Reduction and Quarantine Policies on COVID-19 Local Transmission Rates in the Philippines”. This CompIntel Report […]
Ex-PH Health Chief urges gov’t to get more test kits, assist hospitals amid surge of COVID-19 cases
Date: March 16, 2020 | Anchor: Karen Davila | Source: ANC – The ABS-CBN News Channel In an interview with Karen Davila for ANC’s Headstart, Former Department of Health Secretary, Manuel Dayrit is urging the government to ramp up its support for private and public hospitals. He notes how COVID-19 has become a bigger problem […]
Time to take aggressive action?
Source: The Philippine Star – Filipino Worldview | Author: Ambassador Roberto R. Romulo | Date: March 13, 2020 The World Health Organization yesterday declared the COVID-19 a pandemic, meaning that its spread is global and there is widespread local transmission. It signals that health authorities must now change focus from containment to mitigation. Much is […]
UNDRR urges disaster management agencies to prioritize biological hazards
Source: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction | Author: Denis McClean | Date: March 12, 2020 GENEVA, 12 March, 2020 – The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori, today acknowledged WHO’s declaration of a pandemic in relation to the global outbreak of the COVID19 virus which has claimed over 4,000 lives to […]
NRC-DSWD Partnership Signing
August 27, 2019
Aftermath of earthquakes: Immediate focus
By Amb. Roberto R. Romulo The recent conference on “Megacities at risk: Engineering resilience to seismic hazards” by sheer coincidence took place a few days after the magnitude 6.1 earthquake that shook Central Luzon, followed by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake with the epicenter this time in Samar. No doubt this made more topical and urgent […]
ARISE Philippines Annual General Meeting
April 29, 2019Executive Lounge, Mall of Asia Arena Annex Building, Pasay City Photos by SM