Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has thanked the Department of Transportation (DOTr) “for taking the lead among other government agencies supervising over government-owned and -controlled corporations (GOCCs) in contributing to our collective effort to defeat COVID-19.”
Read MoreThe Duterte administration is implementing a three-pronged strategy to mitigate the social and economic impact of the current global health crisis anchored on providing emergency aid to marginalized and other vulnerable sectors, protecting health workers while boosting their capability to defeat the coronavirus pandemic, and keeping the economy afloat, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has said.
Read MoreThe Asian Development Bank (ADB) has lauded the Duterte administration for its “proactive and preemptive” response to the coronavirus pandemic as it reassured the Philippines of its full support for the nation’s efforts to defeat this fast-spreading disease known as COVID-19.
Read MoreFinance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has thanked the Congress for acting quickly during its break on a legislative measure empowering President Duterte to tap all available state resources to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and provide a multibillion-peso economic relief package primarily for the 18 million poor and low-income households most affected by this global health crisis.
Read MoreFinance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has urged his fellow governors at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to empower its President Mr. Masatsugu Asakawa with more discretion in undertaking measures to address the health emergency associated with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and any resulting economic fallout.
Read MoreFinance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has thanked the Congress for acting quickly during its break on a legislative measure empowering President Duterte to tap all available state resources to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and provide a multibillion-peso economic relief package primarily for the 18 million poor and low-income households most affected by this global health crisis.
Read MoreOn top of their earlier donation of 500,000 face masks, Alibaba Foundation and Jack Ma Foundation have also committed to send thousands of medical-grade, full-body protective suits and face shields to the Philippine government to scale up its response to the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III announced today.
Read MoreThe Bureau of Customs (BOC) has, as of March 19, 2020, successfully processed 189 shipments of medical and other emergency supplies that have arrived in the country’s various ports.
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