Life has never been easy for Juan. Everyday is a battle just to provide food, shelter, and clothes for his family. Unbeknownst to some, a majority of Filipinos live on “isang kahig, isang tuka” basis. A majority of Filipinos are like Juan. The implementation of the Enhanced Community Quarantine has paralyzed several businesses, affecting everyone…
Category: COVID-19 Special Coverage
UP Volunteers Release Free COVID-19 Sanitation Tent Design
SaniTents PH, A group of University of the Philippines graduates, contribute to the fight against COVID-19 by creating a free easy-to-assemble disinfection tent design. The first design prototype for tents was aimed to be affordable and executable by the local government units, private and public establishments, and hospitals to increase their safety protocols. These tents…
Emergency Subsidy Program
– includes the provision of cash or non-cash subsidy for 18 million low-income household beneficiaries amounting to 5,000 to 8,000 pesos per month for 2 months. – A Social Amelioration Card (SAC) is a form, distributed by the barangays, that captures the family profile which will be the means for affected families to access the…
Bayanihan to Heal as One Act
Declaration of Policy: Why is there a need to enact this policy? To contain and mitigate the transmission of COVID-19 To provide assistance to those affected by the community quarantine To shoulder the overburdening of the healthcare system To immediately provide medical tests and treatments to COVID-19 patients, PUIs and PUMs To undertake recovery and…
How Other Countries are Battling the Pandemic
In the Philippines, a lot of things have changed due to the enhanced community quarantine that was implemented on March 16, 2020. This was to contain the virus and to mitigate the effect of the pandemic on everyone. Every country is proactive in preventing COVID-19 from spreading. Let us take a look at the measures…
What We Can Learn From the SARS Outbreak
The spread of the COVID-19 has greatly affected the Philippines, but this is not the first pandemic the country has faced. An epidemic of SARS in 2003 affected 26 countries including the Philippines. The country had 14 cases of SARS, the lowest number of infected individuals out of all the 26 countries. Because of this…
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