The CNMI Department of Labor (DOL) will be accepting applications for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) in Saipan, Rota, and Tinian starting June 17, 2020 through December 26, 2020.

On Monday, June 15, 2020, in response to Governor Ralph DLG. Torres’s latest amendment to the CNMI COVID-19 Emergency Directives, the Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation (CHCC) Environmental Health and Disease Prevention (EHDP), has transitioned from operating under Community Vulnerability Level YELLOW to Community Vulnerability Level BLUE, which allows restaurants and bars to serve dine-in customers at 50% of originally permitted occupancy limit in accordance with supplemental regulatory guidance from the CHCC.