Monthly Archives: March 2021

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LOOK: Department of Social Welfare and Development Central Office to go on lockdown for 3 days, starting tomorrow until Sunday, for disinfection after COVID-19 cases among personnel. @rapplerdotcom pic.twitter.com/Whg2CTBEzf — Pia Ranada (@piaranada) March 18, 2021

by Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), 18 Mar 2021 MANILA, Philippines — More government offices have been put under lockdown as COVID-19 cases among employees spike, with authorities using the closure to implement necessary sanitation and disinfection procedures.

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by Jarius Bondoc (The Philippine Star), 17 Mar 2021 Diverse groups agree: the 2022 presidential election is make or break. No room for mistake. A wrong choice can disintegrate the Republic. National survival compels the groups to converge.

by Ian Nicolas Cigaral (Philstar.com), 16 Mar 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines’ return to pre-pandemic level is likely to come 3 months earlier next year, but growth that would make that happen will do little to salvage the country from being Asia Pacific’s laggard.

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by Pia Lee-Brago (The Philippine Star), 15 Mar 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Some 1.4 million unintended pregnancies have been recorded due to the disruption in contraception services since the COVID-19 pandemic was officially declared a year ago, according to the United Nations’ sexual and reproductive health agency.

(Agence France-Presse), 16 Mar 2021 Andrix Serrano studies alone inside a Manila slum shack he shares with his street-sweeper grandmother. Like many in his fourth-grade class, he has no internet for his shuttered school’s online lessons.

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by Merlina Hernando-Malipot, 16 Mar 2021 While it managed to provide opportunities for students amid a school year filled with challenges due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation in the country, the Department of Education (DepEd) maintained that the conduct of physical classes is still necessary for the overall growth of learners.

(Philstar.com), 16 Mar 2021 MANILA, Philippines — A workers group slammed Tuesday the adjustment of a uniform curfew from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. across Metro Manila, calling it a burden to all workers in the capital region amid the pronounced shortage in mass transportation.

by Gaea Katreena Cabico (Philstar.com), 16 Mar 2021 MANILA, Philippines — A coalition of healthcare professionals called on private firms and local government units to implement measures such as staggered working hours and coordinated contact tracing as the country deals with another spike in COVID-19 cases.

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By: Nestor Corrales, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 15 Mar 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Lawmakers of the Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives on Sunday denounced a memorandum allegedly from the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) that directs its regional directors to identify members of two progressive groups who are in the government…

by Louise Maureen Simeon (The Philippine Star), 15 Mar 2021 MANILA, Philippines — A surge in COVID-19 cases, which has prompted the government to impose localized lockdowns anew to contain the spread of the virus, paints a dark picture of the future of the Philippine economy, according to a London-based think tank.

By: Ben O. de Vera, INQPhilippine Daily Inquirer, 15 Mar 2021 The Philippines has been ranked 94th or near the tail-end among countries promoting sustainable tourism tracked by global business intelligence and market analysis provider Euromonitor International while it also lagged behind another ranking of “travel potential” in Asia-Pacific.

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by Ian Nicolas Cigaral (Philstar.com), 15 Mar 2021 MANILA, Philippines (UPDATE 1:30 p.m., March 15) — The coronavirus has reached the halls of the government’s planning agency leading the relentless push for the economy to reopen from pandemic lockdowns.

by Franco Luna (Philstar.com), 15 Mar 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Manila Police District Station 11 in Binondo was placed under special quarantine lockdown amid a spike in coronavirus cases among the station’s personnel.

by Rudy Santos (The Philippine Star), 15 Mar 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Saudi Arabia is abolishing the kafala sponsorship system, giving all foreign workers, especially overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), the freedom to enter and exit the country without seeking an employer’s permission.

By Ramon Royandoyan(Philstar.com), 15 Mar 2021 MANILA, Philippines— Cash remittances from overseas Filipinos exacerbated their drop month-on-month in January, a shaky start for one of the economy’s brightest performers at the height of pandemic.