Metro Cities articles
Valenzuela offers free shuttle service to residents
Valenzuela City provided free shuttle services to residents who were returning to work on the first day of the general community quarantine (GCQ). Zyan Caiña, chief of the city’s public information office, said they have deployed a total of 12 vehicles to give residents a ride as they ...
Valenzuela seniors receive P3,000
About 3,209 elderly residents in Valenzuela City received P3,000 in social pension on May 25. “The COVID-19 (new coronavirus disease) pandemic has greatly affected senior citizens. Since the declaration of the enhanced community quarantine in mid-March, … they have been barred from goi...
Valenzuela keeps liquor ban
Valenzuela City is keeping its liquor ban even if Metro Manila is placed under the general community quarantine (GCQ). Mayor Rex Gatchalian said that the primary reason why the city council cannot lift the ban is because Ordinance No. 681-2020 states that the “sale, purchase, delivery, and co...
Valenzuela to assess risks of offices, factories reopening
Offices and factories in Valenzuela City will undergo risk assessment for possible spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) before they are allowed to reopen. Mayor Rex Gatchalian said that by requiring businesses operating in the city to submit their “new normal management plan,” the l...
Valenzuela starts testing returning OFWs
Valenzuela City began testing returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) for Covid-19 as it ramped up its mass testing program. According to its public information office (PIO), the city can now conduct more than 100 tests every day after signing an agreement with a third laboratory partner to...
Valenzuela mayor eyes another round of SAP beneficiary identification
Valenzuela City Mayor Rex Gatchalian said he might appeal to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to do another round of identifying residents to be qualified for the Social Amelioration Program (SAP). Gatchalian said they would do it if there would still be slots available ...
Valenzuela thanks Nograles for supporting mass testing of PUMs
Valenzuela City Mayor Rex Gatchalian thanked Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles for listening to his suggestion to consider all persons under monitoring (PUMs) for mass testing although the Department of Health (DOH) already removed them from their new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) case definition. ...
Valenzuela grants 4-month grace period on rental fees
Valenzuela City announced a four-month grace period for tenants of Disiplina Village Bignay and Disiplina Village Ugong through Ordinance No. 691, Series of 2020. The moratorium, which was declared on April 13, 2020, seeks to alleviate the financial burden of residents who are experiencing the...
Valenzuela expects to complete mass testing for Covid-19 by weekend
Valenzuela City expects to complete testing all its suspect and probable cases for COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) by the end of the week, according to Mayor Rex Gatchalian. “We are already halfway through our list of what they used to call persons under monitoring and persons under inves...
Valenzuela expects to remove backlog in coronavirus testing
Valenzuela City expects to complete the testing of probable and suspected cases of coronavirus disease 2019 by Saturday, according to Mayor Rex Gatchalian. Through an agreement, the local government partnered with the second laboratory, Detoxicare Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, to manage the sam...
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