Monthly Archives: March 2021

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By: Vincent Cabreza, Inquirer Southern Luzon, 3 Mar 2021 BAGUIO CITY—Employees of business process outsourcing (BPO) firms, or call centers, have been isolated this week due to a possible coronavirus outbreak after workplace tests confirmed that many of the 118 infection cases recorded in Baguio on Wednesday (Mar. 3) came from these facilities.

by Merlina Hernando-Malipot, Manila Bulletin, 3 Mar 2021 If schools all around the world were just one big classroom, 168 million children would be marked “absent” in the class attendance due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

Almost 9 in 10 Filipinos feel they have been negatively impacted by COVID-19, said LinkedIn study, citing job insecurity, reduced working hours and reduced pay. This led to a cautious economic outlook among Filipinos,with 3 in 4 believing economic situation in PH has worsened. pic.twitter.com/p69ryaRfup — Tina Arceo-Dumlao (@tinaarceodumlao) March 2, 2021

By Ruben Cruz Jr., Businessmirror, 2 Mar 2021 The lockdowns that were imposed across the country starting March 2020 or one year ago to contain the Covid-19 pandemic completely disrupted the country’s economy.

by Marlowe Hood (Philstar.com), 2 Mar 2021 PARIS, France — Nature apparently is not healing and carbon emissions that declined during lockdowns are increasing, threatening to put climate treaty targets for capping global warming out of reach, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.

By: Ben O. de Vera, INQPhilippine Daily Inquirer, 1 Mar 2021 Cash remittance flows to the Philippines would again buck the projected prolonged global downtrend this year and grow by as much as 7 percent to support a rebound in household spending, financial giant Morgan Stanley said.