Copy Reading The country has some one hundred fourteen people about the different diseases brought by
Fact Sheets (English) SUCs and many more LUCs. Senator Francis migratory animals.
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Escudero, chairman of the Senate Committee on Last Aug. 11, the province of Pampanga has
The bi-cameral committee report is the
Health, and senators Sonny Angara, Sherwin declared a state of calamity following an outbreak
reconciliation version of the Senate Bill 1304 and
Gatchalian, Ralph Recto, Joseph Victor Ejercito, of birdflu in the towm of San Luis,
House Bill 5633 providing for free college
Loren Legarda, Juan Miguel Zubiri, Cynthia Meanwhile, the Department of Social Welfare
education in SUCs, LPUs, and government-run
Villar, Lailani de Lima, Richard Gordon, Joel and Development (DSWD) said around two
vocational schools.
Villanueva and Paolo Benigno Aquino IV revised hundred thousand chicken, ducks and qualls, will
the bill. be killed within the 1-km radius of the affected
Manila, Philippines – the bicameral conference
farms to prevent the spread of the avianinfluenza
comittee yesterday approved the law granting
– which can cause illness and death to animals
free college education in state universities Governor Lilia Pineda said although the avian flu
and humans.
(SUCs) and legitimate universities and colleges virus only affected 1 town, there were 7 towns
(LUCs) in the philippines, which senators covered by the 7-kilometer radius of the
guessed as a major reform in the country’s quarantine area; apalit, candaba, minalin, santa
education system. ana, santo tomas, mexico, san simon. Also
covered was the city of San Fernandez
Both chambers of the government are expected to a calamity of state decla rations means funds to
ratify the measure before they go on a break this help out the affected farmers would be realeased.
week. It was therefore an initiative taken by the
Department of Education to inform the Filipino