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Plant Quarantine Act; Long title: An Act to regulate the importation of nursery stock and other plants and plant products; to enable' the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine districts for plant diseases and insect pests; to permit and regulate the movement of fruits, plants, and vegetables therefrom, and for other purposes.
The spike in cases prompted the Philippine government to impose an enhanced community quarantine classification on Metro Manila and the adjacent provinces of Bulacan, Rizal, Cavite, and Laguna, which entitled workers and low-income Filipinos to receive aid (ayuda) from the government.
As about 24,000 Filipinos who lost their jobs abroad are being transported by land, sea or air to their provincial homes, the president warned local officials not to refuse them entry out of ...
The enhanced community quarantine in Luzon covers the island of Luzon and its outlying islands, or eight out of seventeen regions of the Philippines. An indefinite enhanced community quarantine, was imposed in Caraga, alternatively known as One Shield Caraga, started on April 7, [39] and in the Davao Region [40] which took effect on April 4. [40]
Mega Ligtas COVID Centers, [1] also known as Temporary Treatment and Monitoring Facilities (TTMFs), [2] are temporary non-hospital health facilities or emergency patient care centers established and managed by the Philippine government to accommodate COVID-19 patients at a provincial or regional level as part of its efforts to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.
Plant quarantine is a technique for ensuring disease- and pest-free plants, whereby a plant is isolated while tests are performed to detect the presence of a problem.
The task force is composed of the Philippine National Police (PNP), the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), and Barangay tanods. To be able to respond to more localized issues and concerns, Regional Inter-Agency Task Force in their respective regions were organized.
On December 15, 2000, the Bureau of Plant Industry under the leadership of Atty. BLO Umpar Adiong, was certified as ISO 9002 and considered as having a world class management system. [citation needed] In 2014, Assistant Secretary Paz J. Benavidez II of the Department of Agriculture was named OIC Director of the Bureau of Plant Industry.