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Iloilo City government is expanding its urban gardening project to promote sustainable farming with 31 villages committing to join the "JPT (Jerry P. Treñas) Ediscape (edible landscaping) II during the launching held on Tuesday.

The Department of Health in the Zamboanga Peninsula reported a 94.49 percent Covid-19 recovery rate since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.

Transport cooperatives in the Northern Mindanao Region have welcomed assistance from the Department of Transportation in the form of sanitation kits.

The Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao has begun the pilot of the face-to-face classes in three elementary schools in the island province of Tawi-Tawi.

Some teaching and non-teaching personnel of the Department of Education in the Ilocos Region have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as of February 21.

A "School on Wheels" equipped with laptops, printers, and internet connection will soon be traveling around remote areas in the province of Ilocos Norte to reach out to students under the current distance learning program of the Department of Education.

Iloilo City Mayor Jerry P. Treñas has urged parents to have their children 5 to 11 years old be vaccinated as protection against the Covid-19 and for those eligible to get booster shots.

The distribution of social pensions of indigent senior citizens across Soccsksargen will now be released.

Only 4 percent of the more than 56,000 active cases of Covid-19 are critical while among hospital admissions, between 12 and 15 percent are classified as severe to critical, a health official said Tuesday.

The national government will incentivize local government units that can inoculate at least 70 percent of eligible adults and 80 percent of senior citizens from their target population.