The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on Thursday, July 15, 2021, approved the request of the Philippine Basketball Association to restart their 46th season.

Several batches of vaccine deliveries are expected to arrive in the country this week including J&J, AstraZeneca, Sinovac, and Moderna vaccines, according to Presidential Spokesperson Secretary Harry Roque Jr.

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte approved the extension of the General Community Quarantine (GCQ) in the National Capital Region (NCR) starting July 16, 2021 until July 31, 2021.

The Palace confirms that President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has approved the travel restrictions for all travelers coming from Indonesia or those with travel history to Indonesia within the last fourteen (14) days preceding arrival in the Philippines.

The Philippines recorded its highest number of vaccines administered in a day at 375,059 jabs on July 13, 2021 – the highest daily jabs so far for the country since the national vaccination program stared in March 2021.

At least one city in the National Capital Region has now achieved 100 percent vaccination of their target population, as 70 percent of San Juan City’s population has been inoculated with a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

The Inter-Agency Task (IATF) on Thursday, July 8, 2021, allowed children, ages 5 and above, under the risk classification of Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) and General Community Quarantine (GCQ), except those under heightened restrictions, to go to outdoor areas.

Some 3,089,976 Filipinos are now fully vaccinated, as of the July 7, 2021 data from the National COVID-19 Vaccination Dashboard, according to Presidential Spokesperson Secretary Harry Roque Jr.

The Philippines has now reached the 12th million mark in terms of the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered, Presidential Spokesperson Secretary Harry Roque announced today, July 6, 2021, in a press briefing held in Pampanga.

Presidential Spokesperson Secretary Harry Roque Jr assured that the national government’s mass vaccination program against COVID-19 would continue even in areas in Batangas affected by the recent eruption of the Taal Volcano.