Friday, January 7, 2022

IATF finds way to avert hospital staff shortage

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IATF finds way to avert hospital staff shortage

The government’s pandemic task force has shortened the period of isolation or quarantine for fully vaccinated health-care workers infected with the coronavirus and those exposed to COVID-19 patients so that they could return to work sooner and prevent hospitals from being understaffed.

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Property trends we’d like to see in 2022

And just like that, we enter 2022. Two years into the pandemic and it seems we keep going back to square one just when things start to look better.

COMMUNITY SWABBING No event is too mundane for a souvenir shot, especially for the companion of this woman and her child who are among the Mandaluyong City residents who availed themselves of free COVID-19 swab tests on Friday. —GRIG C. MONTEGRANDE

Lawyer: Marcos settled tax, fines not in court but in BIR

A lawyer for former Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. told the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday that he did not settle his unpaid taxes and fines with the Quezon City court which convicted him in 1995 of tax evasion, an admission that could jeopardize his candidacy for president in the May 9 general elections.

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Opinion: Solace for solo parents

It took about a year before the eventual passage through the legislative mill of the Expanded Solo Parents Act, from House approval in January 2021 to the passage by the Senate of the same bill last Dec. 13.