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Si Department of Education 7 Regional Director Salustiano Jimenez, mihatag sa iyang mensahe atol sa gipahigayon nga Media Forum for the Opening of Classes SY 2022-2023 niadtong Agosto 26 sa DepEd7 Confence Room, Lahug, Cebu City. (RGC/PIA7 Cebu) CEBU CITY, Cebu, August 30 (PIA) -- Gihulagway sa Department of Education Region 7 (DepEd7) ang pag-abli sa klase niadtong Agosto 22 alang sa school year 2022-2023, isip hapsay ug malinawon. Sa gipahigayon nga Media Forum niadtong Agosto 26, gibatbat sa ahensya nga nagmalampuson sa kinatibuk-an ang pagsugod sa klase sa mga nagkadaiyang tunghaan sa Central Visayas. “Our assessment on the start of classes last August 22, the schools opening was generally smooth, orderly, and peaceful with the help of all stakeholders, LGUs, NGOS, barangay officials, and other agencies”  saysay ni DepEd7 Regional Director Salustiano T. Jimenez. Matod usab sa DepEd7, wala silay nadawat nga dakong problema sa adlaw sa pag-abli sa klase kung diin kadaghanan sa mg...

CEBU CITY, Cebu, August 29 (PIA) -- In line with its regional campaign to increase booster vaccination among the general population, the Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH7), along with the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG7), and the Cebu City government held the "PinasLakas" Ceremonial Vaccination Campaign at the San Roque Parish, Mambaling, this city on August 27.   The campaign aims to support and advocate with the community for the increased uptake and demand of the COVID-19 vaccines, especially for booster doses. It aims to bring the government’s vaccination program closer to the people by putting up vaccination sites in various areas such as malls, public markets, offices, workplaces, and places of worship. The campaign is also in accordance with the directives of Pres. Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos, Jr. to achieve 90% coverage for the primary series of the COVID-19 vaccine for the A2 priority group or senior citizens, and 50% coverage for th...

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, June 7 (PIA) -- Gikahimuot sa   National Task Force Against COVID-19 (NTF)   ang pagsaka sa   ranking   sa Pilipinas sa labing bag-o nga   Nikkei Asia COVID-19 Recovery Index. Na-apsan na sa Pilipinas ang  Italy  nga anaa sa ika 34, ang  Switzerland  nga anaa sa 38, ang Israel nga anaa sa 44, ang  Japan  nga anaa sa ika 53, ang  United Kingdom  nga anaa sa ika 58, ang  Canada  nga ila 60 na, ang  Australia  nga ika 71 ang  New Zealand  nga naa sa ila 75, ang  Singapore  nga anaa sa ika 79, ang  Amerika  nga naa sa ika 89, apil ang  China  nga naa sa  ika 93 ug ang  Russia  nga anaa sa ika 111. Ang Pilipinas karon anaa na sa ila 33 sa 121 ka mga nasud, kon hisgutan ang pagdumala sa impeksyon sa  COVID-19  sa pamakuna ug sa pagpalihok sa katawhan batok sa nahisgutang sakit. Kahinumduman nga ang nasud, nanumotumoy sa s...

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, June 5 (PIA) -- Health experts at the national level suggest capacitating local hospitals to be efficient enough to treat patients. This as Bohol nears its target of reaching herd immunity against COVID-19 that has since killed 682 Boholanos. The Department of Health (DOH) has emphasized the need to capacitate local health providers in primary health care facilities and infirmaries to depopulate tertiary and secondary hospital beds for other critical cases.  Vaccinating 71.57% of its target 80% of eligible population of 1,106,084, Bohol still needs to vaccinate 103,267 individuals to achieve the herd immunity threshold. An 80% vaccination coverage of its eligible population allows the national task force to downgrade Bohol’s COVID alert status to Alert Level 1. According to DOH, only when COVID-19 is declared as endemic can the country fully open its economy and allow its people to step into the new normal. By declaring COVID-19 from being a pandemic into an...

CEBU CITY, Cebu, June 4 (PIA) -- The Balik Probinsya, Bagong Pag-asa (BP2) Program has helped hundreds of families in Central Visayas since the government started implementing the program in the region in 2021. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), one of the lead agencies in charge of facilitating the BP2 program, said the program was able to assist 343 families in Region 7 in 2021. DSWD, along with other implementing agencies, launched BP2P at a time when COVID-19 cases are reportedly high and the program became a great help for the families as they counter the effects of the pandemic, especially the impact on their employment and livelihood situation. For 2022, another 41 beneficiaries of the BP2P were dispatched from Metro Manila and brought back to Central Visayas on June 2 where 16 individuals from four families returned to Cebu Province and 25 individuals from five families in the province of Bohol.  According to DSWD-7, more families and partner local gov...

Representatives from DSWD-7, NHA-7, PIA-7, and the LGUs of Tabuelan and Cebu City greet the latest batch of BP2P beneficiaries who arrived at Mactan Cebu International Airport on June 2. (PIA7)   CEBU CITY, Cebu, June 4 (PIA) -- Another batch of returning families who are beneficiaries under the Balik Probinsya, Bagong Pag-asa (BP2) Program arrived in Cebu on June 2 as the government conducted a new BP2 program dispatch in Central Visayas for 2022. The Cebu batch of BP2 program beneficiaries. who flew in from the National Capital Region, consists of 16 individuals from four families who will settle in the different municipalities and cities in the province of Cebu. Two families are bound for Bogo town, one to Tabuelan town, and one will return to Cebu City. Representatives from the Department of Social Welfare and Development, National Housing Authority, and Philippine Information Agency as well as personnel from the said local government units welcomed the arrival of the beneficia...

PANGLAO, Bohol, June 4 (PIA) -- News and entertainment hosts and production staff, social media influencers, vloggers and content editors, and travel operators from Manila and Central Visayas strapped on their dive suits and dive masks to get a first-hand experience of the beauty and wonder of Panglao’s hidden underwater paradise. Here for the DIVE7 Travel Trade and Media Familiarization from June 3 to 6, the team led by the Department of Tourism (DOT) Region 7 DIVE7 Project officer Glenice Do, Judy Quiachon, and Jaypee Orcullo of DOT Bohol, the group immersed themselves in the Discovery SCUBA dive (DSD) world.  This is DOT’s way of promoting the dive tourism of Central Visayas, where the tropical water nourishes a biodiversity that attracts tourists from around the world.  Bohol is an island in the middle of a marine superhighway where the currents from the Pacific Ocean and the West Philippine Sea pass through its southern waters, and filters through the sprinkling of i...