5 Magalang seniorscontract COVID 19
MAGALANG --- Five senior citizens are among the 11 new COVID-19 cases in this agricultural town.
The elderly who recently contracted the virus include a 69 year old man from Barangay San Nicolas 1, 72 year old man from San Nicolas 1, 72 year old man also from San Nicolas 1, 85 year old man from San Jose, and 71 year old woman also of San Jose.
These bring the total number of corona virus cases in the town to 323 as of April 9, 2021.
The local government recorded recorded 18 COVID 19 death and 75 active cases as of April 9, 2021.
All of the patients are now isolated in different hospitals in Pampanga while their close contacts were place under quarantine.
CLARK FREEPORT--The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) recently opened a fixed registration center in Pampanga for the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys).
PSA Regional Office III Officer-in-Charge Arlene Divino said the registration center, located at the second floor of Robinsons Starmills, will serve as a counter for the Step 2 process of the PhilSys which is focused on the validation of supporting documents and collection of registrants’biometric information, including fingerprint biometrics, iris scans and face photographs.
Step 1 includes PSA enumerators going houseto-house and collecting demographic information of low-income household heads in select areas nationwide conducted in the last quarter of 2020.
The fixed registration center, which is open Mondays to Saturdays from 9AM to 7PM, will initially cater to San Fernando residents who have undertaken the Step 1 process and have received message from the PSA as to their respective Step 2 schedules.
“Walk-in clients could be accommodated, provided there are no scheduled registrants in queue at the time of their visit,” Divino said.
The rollout of the PhilSys Step 2 process should have been implemented in January this year, admitting some minor glitches in the system prevented the agency from pushing this through.
“Supposedly, this should have started first week of January, but we needed to perfect the system first because we cannot afford to rollout with even a minor glitch in the system as this would be a lifetime ID,” Divino said.
She also clarified that Step 1 will still be continued as one of the three modes PSA has devised for the registration process, which include assisted registration, online registration, and institutional regi st r at i on.
Divino said they devised three modes of registration for Step 1.
Mode 1 is assisted, where PhilSys field teams will conduct house-to-house pre-registration, specifically to reach low-income households in areas where there is slow internet connectivity.
Mode 2 is online, where registrants connect to the PhilSys online portal, enter their demographic information, and set their schedule for appointment with designated registration center near their residence.
Mode 3 is institutional, a mobile registration where PhilSys team will go directly to institutions like military camps, seminaries, nursing homes, and the like.
Divino, however, clarified that online registration for Step 1 has yet to commence but is targeted for implementation by second quarter this year.
Under these three modes, the PSA targets to register more than 7.8 million Central Luzon residents this year, broken down as follows: Aurora – 132,372; Bataan – 538,637; Bulacan – 2,232,488; Nueva Ecija – 1,545,683; Pampanga – 1,824,899; Tarlac – 967,272; and Zambales – 594,969.
“Priority target is 15 years old and above, but the moment we reached our target, we may register those below 15 years old. For 5 years old below, we require their mothers should have been registered first and these young registrants would be required to re-register upon reaching the age of 15,” Divino said.
As of date, the PSA has already established a total of 231 PhilSys registration centers in almost all municipalities and cities regionwide.
The local government is appealing to the public to always follow the Minimum Health Standards set by the DOH to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
"We are also appealing to every qualified individual to get vaccinated against the dreaded COVID-19 virus," the municipal government added. 30