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-Updated: January 2, 2022
+Updated: January 3, 2022
-'''Baguio to launch Covid-19 self-test kits'''.<br>
+'''Most typhoon-hit Metro Cebu areas still without power'''.<br>
-BAGUIO CITY – The city government here is set to introduce the easy-to-use coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) home testing to allow residents to check on their condition whenever they need to. City information office chief Aileen Refuerzo, in a phone interview on Sunday, said Mayor Benjamin Magalong Jr. is batting for the use of antigen self-test kits to further speed up detection and management of Covid-19 cases in a safe way as residents won’t have to go to health facilities. “Our city could be the pilot site for this do-it-yourself testing kits that are widely used in the US, Canada, Europe, and Singapore,” Refuerzo said, adding the launch will be held within the week.
+CEBU CITY – Eighteen days after Typhoon Odette, the Visayan Electric Co. on Monday reported that 28 percent of the 474,182 households and establishments in Metro Cebu have been reenergized. In its update on Monday, Visayan Electric Co. said that 132,397 customers whose electric lines were cut off during the December 16 onslaught of the typhoon now have their lights on. This development came as Cebu’s largest power distribution firm restored 388 or 71 percent of the 544 power line segments in its franchise area destroyed by "Odette". “Restoration is taking longer in areas where Visayan Electric’s distribtion facilities sustained heavy damage such as toppled poles, downed wires, and damaged transformers,” the statement posted on Aboitiz Power Corporation’s social media page said.
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-'''Walk-ins allowed at PhilSys Davao registration centers'''<br>
+'''Abra reimposes strict protocols to prevent entry of Omicron'''<br>
-DAVAO CITY – Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) registration centers here are now accepting walk-ins as the government wants more Filipinos to have their Philippine Identification (PhilID) or national ID. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) – 11 said in a December 2021 post that walk-in registrants must have a valid ID from among the accepted documents and will manually fill up the information sheet. The PSA-PhilSys staff will ask the registrant to verify the information encoded before proceeding to the Step 2 biometrics process. Makeup and accessories must be removed prior to taking of photos while contact lenses are likewise not allowed as they will interfere with the iris scan.
+BAGUIO CITY – Abra Governor Maria Jocelyn Bernos on Monday announced on her official Facebook page that the province would reimplement strict border and entry protocols as a precaution against the possible entry of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). This, as the Department of Health (DOH) in Cordillera reported that the province remains to have zero active cases of the viral infection. “We will again be strict in our entry protocols starting tomorrow. The S-PaSS (Safe, Swift and Smart Passage) system for all incoming individuals (residents and non-residents; APOR (authorized persons outside the residence) or non-APOR; vaccinated or non-vaccinated,” Bernos said in her post in the Ilocano dialect.
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