The Minister of Religious Affairs Fachrul Razi said the government required the organizers of Umrah pilgrimage (PPIU) to deposit a minimum security deposit of Rp200 million. This rule is to anticipate that cases of Umrah fraud such as that of First Travel is not repeated. “The regulation stipulates that organizers of Umrah pilgrimage (PPIU) must have the financial capacity to …

The Indonesian General Election Commission (KPU) requires that the candidate pair submit the support and distribution requirements to the Regency / City KPU through the Nomination Information System (Silon). Based on the paslon data that submitted an application to obtain a Silon account. As many as 58 percent of potential candidate pairs (paslon) have the potential to advance in the …

As a precautionary measure to thwart the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), foreign workers be of concern to the Immigration Office in Sukabumi District in that area. That institution has summoned tens of executives and representatives of companies employing foreign workers. The workers are mostly working in the field of textile, garment, leather and hotel industries.   “We summoned (representatives of) …

As many 18 Indonesian crew members on the Diamond Princess cruise ship that quarantined off Yokohama in Japan, showed test results that three out of them have been infected by the coronavirus. This was confirmed by Indonesia’s foreign minister, on Tuesday. “The Japanese Ambassador [to Indonesia] has told me that three of the 78 Indonesian crew members on the cruise …

The head of a leading hospital in central China’s Wuhan area, the epicenter of an outbreak of coronavirus, died of the disease on Tuesday, state television reported, becoming the second prominent Chinese doctor to succumb to the pathogen. Advertisement Liu Zhiming, the Wuhan Wuchang Hospital manager, died at 10:30 a.m., it said. Earlier this month, the death of Li Wenliang, …

According to the Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday, the new price ceilings that will be imposed on certain medicines in the country in accordance with the Maximum Drug Retail Price (MDRP) have gone through complex review since 2017. The goal, according to Guerrero, is to lower the country’s medicine prices and make them equal to developed countries ‘ prices. …

The Cagayan de Oro City Second District Representative and House Constitutional Amendments panel Chair Rufus Rodriguez said Tuesday, the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments was set to vote on several recommendations for amendments to the Charter. Rodriguez noted that his panel should give weight to the interagency panel’s recommendations on constitutional amendments which included: Electing senators for each of the …

According to data from the Department of Health (DOH), only around a quarter of the 527 people under investigation (PUIs) for suspected coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the Philippines are still admitted to hospitals. Announcement By 12 p.m. 387 PUIs, or 73 per cent, were discharged from medical facilities on Tuesday. In the Philippines the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases …

The Philippine Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Association (PHAP) on Tuesday cautioned that pharmaceutical companies will reduce their labor force as a result of potential loss of competitiveness due to the high retail price recently levied on certain medicines. PHAP’s opposition to price control has been consistent since global experience showed that artificial measures lead to market inefficiencies and lack of supply …

A hospital director at the epicentre of China’s virus epidemic died Tuesday, state media said, the latest medical worker to fall victim to the new coronavirus spreading across the country. Liu Zhiming, the director of Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan, died Tuesday morning after “all-out rescue efforts failed,” state broadcaster CCTV reported. China said last week that six medical workers had …