Secretary Michael Lloyd Dino is pushing for the institutionalization of the Emergency Operations Center in various localities in the Visayas to equip them with strategies in the fight against COVID-19.
The City of Kabankalan in Negros Occidental has granted a PHP10-million fertilizer assistance to rice farmers to ensure food security in the southern locality.
The Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño has relaxed its COVID-19 safety measures and now allows devotees aged 15 to 65 years old inside the church's premises.
The Philippine Carabao Center-Ubay Stock Farm and the Department of Agriculture in Central Visayas kicks off a school-based milk feeding program in the southern city of Carcar, Cebu, benefiting nearly 5,000 learners.
Mayor Evelio Leonardia has underscored the significance of capacitating cities towards national development as he expressed support for the full devolution of powers to local government units in two years.