Monthly Archives: May 2020

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by Janvic Mateo (The Philippine Star), 6 May 2020 MANILA, Philippines — A 41-year-old woman was arrested in Caloocan City on Monday for allegedly forcing her three children to perform sexual acts for paying customers online.

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by Agence France-Presse, 6 May 2020 The UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime on Wednesday warned of increased risks to human trafficking victims due to the coronavirus crisis with people more vulnerable to exploitation and protection limited.

by Ben O. de Vera, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 5 May 2020 Factory production declined in March as supposedly nonessential manufacturing ground to a halt at the start of a lockdown meant to stop transmission of SARS Cov2, the virus that causes the disease COVID-19.

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by Gaea Katreena Cabico (Philstar.com), 5 May 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The number of people from the healthcare sector infected with the new coronavirus rose to 1,819 Tuesday, the Department of Health said.

by Daphne Galvez, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 5 May 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Forty-one provinces in the country have reported no new case of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the last two weeks, the Department of Health (DOH) said Tuesday.

by Sheila Crisostomo, Mayen Jaymalin, Evelyn Macairan, Delon Porcalla, Paolo Romero, Ding Cervantes, Artemio Dumlao, Alexis Romero (The Philippine Star, 5 May 2020) MANILA, Philippines — President Duterte has suspended the increase in premium contributions of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) amid the coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 pandemic.

By: Katrina Hallare, INQINQUIRER.net, 5 May 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) have arrested two people allegedly involved in human trafficking in an entrapment operation in Fairview, Quezon City.

By: Doris Dumlao-Abadilla, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 4 May 2020 The Philippines will not use taxpayers’ money to bail out entities distressed by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has created a challenging operating environment feared to bankrupt a throng of businesses across the globe.

By: April Lee-Tan, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 4 May 2020 The peso has always been vulnerable to past crises. During the Asian Financial Crisis in the late ‘90s, the peso depreciated to 56 from around 26 against the dollar. During the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, it weakened by around 14 percent.

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.@UNFPA estimates a 6 month lockdown will mean 47 million women w.o. contraception, 7 million unintended pregnancies, 31 million new cases of gender-based violence. Over 10 yrs, that means 13 million more child marriages & 2 million more cases of female genital mutilation. — Jackie Speier (@RepSpeier) May 4, 2020

By Ma. Teresa Montemayor, 4 May 2020 MANILA – The testing capacity of laboratories for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) has reached the 5,000-mark, a health official said Monday.

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by Pia Lee-Brago (The Philippine Star) with Mayen Jaymalin, Paolo Romero, 4 May 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. yesterday hit the increase in the contribution of premium payments of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth).