The Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) has sent a letter to the Senate and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff General Gilbert Gapay stating the following in relation to its remittances and contributions to the AFP:
A total of 61 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) were sent home Thursday, August 20, from the We Heal As One Center at Fort Magsaysay in Nueva Ecija after recovering from COVID-19.
A simple send-off was held by the Bureau of Quarantine and the medical staff for the COVID survivors—the first batch discharged from the facility—before they were fetched by their families and loved ones to go home.
The OFWs stayed at the quarantine facility which has 478 air-conditioned rooms allotted for COVID-positive patients, while 44 rooms are for the medical staff.
World-class airline, Emirates, operated its first A380 commercial flight in Clark, Pampanga today, August 19, via the Clark International Airport.
The Philippines now conducts the most number of COVID-19 tests compared to its Southeast Asian neighbors, based on recent figures from Our World in Data, an England-based data and research platform.
Our World in Data’s graph shows that the country has increased its number of people tested on a seven-day average to more than 30,000, topping Indonesia’s 12,777 tests, Malaysia’s 6,494 tests, Singapore’s 5,551 tests, Thailand’s 1,926 tests and Myanmar’s 1,126 tests as of end-July. Vietnam recorded a high of 10,906 tests.
The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) and the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) recently signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the implementation of the Fire Code of the Philippines (Republic Act 9514), and the construction of a fire station in New Clark City.
The Clark International Airport New Passenger Terminal is on track to be fully operational by January 2021, with the building shell already 99.52 percent completed.
A joint project of the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA), the new and iconic terminal is designed to triple the airport’s annual passenger capacity from the present four million to 12 million.
