News Roundup 08 February 2022
Feb 08, 2022 • 4 min Read
Robredo’s campaign kicks off in hometown Naga with promise of new politics | PHILSTAR.COM – Vice President Leni Robredo returned to her roots in Naga City to launch her campaign for the presidency, promising to bring to the country the brand of leadership she is known for in her bailiwick of Bicol. A crowd gathered for Robredo’s grand rally on Friday at Plaza Quezon, where she was joined by her running mate Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan and eight of her 12 senatorial candidates. Prior to the rally, the Robredo-Pangilinan ticket had barnstormed the towns of Lupi, Libmanan and Tigaon, and the city of Iriga in Camarines Sur, where they received a warm welcome from residents. It comes as no surprise that Robredo started campaigning in her bailiwick, the Bicol region, as she won by landslide here in the 2016 vice presidential race despite other Bicolanos running against her. For 2022, Robredo said she is also counting on the “solid” Bicolano vote, which amounts to around 3.6 million voters as of 2019. But Robredo said Bicolanos should vote for her not solely because she is one of them, but because of the kind of governance she has to offer. “That’s the kind of governance that is honest, sensible and competent, without corruption, without strife, without deception,” Robredo said in Filipino at her campaign stop in Libmanan. While Robredo’s voter base is strong in Bicol, she still has a lot of catching up to do to displace survey frontrunner former Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, who enjoys a double-digit lead over the vice president. But should she pull off this Hail Mary, it would be her third time defeating the deposed dictator’s son.
Palace issues memo ordering agencies to prepare for implementation of PhilSys | PHILSTAR.COM – Malacañang has ordered state agencies and local governments to prepare for the implementation of the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) and its integration into government processes, databases, systems, and services to make transactions more convenient to the public. Memorandum Circular No. 95 signed by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea last February 7 said there is an urgent need to direct the entire government to take preparatory steps to ensure that the PhilSys and its key components are properly integrated in the processes, databases, and services of all state agencies. He also highlighted the need to facilitate interconnectivity and to make transacting with the government convenient and cost efficient. All government agencies, instrumentalities, departments, bureaus, offices, local governments, government-owned and controlled corporations, state-run financial institutions, state universities and colleges and other chartered institutions were directed to incorporate and integrate in their respective processes, databases, identification systems, and services, the PhilSys numbers and Philippine identification (PhilID) of registered persons and other components and features of the identification system.
Robredo-Pangilinan team 2022 campaign takes off from Naga City | INQUIRER.NET – The tandem of Vice President Leni Robredo and Senator Francis Pangilinan, along with the rest of their senatorial slate, launched their 2022 campaign in her hometown of Naga City, Camarines Sur on Tuesday amid a huge crowd in this city’s Plaza Quezon. The team’s proclamation rally followed Robredo and Pangilinan’s tour of Camarines Sur earlier in the day. The Leni-Kiko tandem’s senatorial line-up includes reelectionist and former senators Risa Hontiveros, Richard Gordon, Antonio Trillanes IV, Leila de Lima, Francis Escudero, Miguel Zubiri, and Joel Villanueva; former congressmen Teddy Baguilat and Neri Colmenares; former vice president Jejomar Binay; and lawyers Chel Diokno, Alex Lacson, Sonny Matula. While Hontiveros, Gordon, Trillanes, Baguilat, Diokno, Lacson, and Matula were able to physically attend the proclamation rally and deliver their speeches, Escudero and de Lima each sent their videotaped message to their supporters.
PH logs 3,574 new COVID-19 cases | Manila Bulletin – This brings the total number of COVID-19 cases to 3,619,633 since the onset of the pandemic. Of this, 2.9 percent are active cases at 105,550. Among the active cases, DOH said that 95.5 percent are mild and asymptomatic. According to the case bulletin, 96,722 are mild; 4,059 are asymptomatic; 3,007 are moderate; 1,446 are servere and 316 are in critical condition. The health department also reported 14,644 new recoveries bringing the total number to 3,459,462 or 95.6 percent while 83 more people have died from COVID-19 bringing the death toll to 54,621 or 1.51 percent of the total cases. DOH said that of the 3,574 reported cases, 3,116 or 87 percent occurred within the recent 14 days from Jan, 26 to Feb. 8. The top regions with cases in the recent two weeks were the National Capital Region (528 or 17 percent), Region 6 (357 or 11 percent) and Region 7 (308 or 10 percent). It added that all labs were operational on February 6, 2022. However 6 labs were not able to submit their data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System (CDRS).
