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#BREAKING #Alert NEW report on Coronavirus Effects: Depression, anxiety ~ Alcohol use, Violence, up ~ Young and Old, Rich and Poor ~ No country spared ~ In children, reports from around the world: Violence, loneliness, difficulty concentrating ~ https://t.co/8uOxWJv5Pa pic.twitter.com/vzvfnN1vQU — Pamela Falk (@PamelaFalk) May 14, 2020
by Associated Press, 14 May 2020 UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations forecast Wednesday that the COVID-19 pandemic will shrink the world economy by 3.2% this year, the sharpest contraction since the Great Depression in the 1930s.
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by Maricar Cinco, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 13 May 2020 SAN PEDRO CITY, Laguna, Philippines — Local officials are scrambling to find the real score in the coronavirus infection to justify the national government’s recommendation on whether to extend or ease quarantine protocols.
by Edu Punay (The Philippine Star), 13 May 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano and other House leaders yesterday filed a bill setting a P1.5-trillion stimulus program to jumpstart the country’s economy severely affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
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By Recto Mercene, 12 May 2020 Some of the 610 seafarers of the MV Queen Mary 2 are met at the airport by a DFA representative as they arrive on Saturday (April 25).
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by Associated Press, 12 May 2020 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Weeks after two of his roommates were diagnosed with COVID-19, Mohamad Arif Hassan says he’s still waiting to be tested for the coronavirus. Quarantined in his room in a sprawling foreign workers’ dormitory that has emerged as Singapore’s biggest viral cluster, Arif says he isn’t…
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Vergiere says in ECQ areas, the government aims to suppress transmission, must enforce community quarantine and minimum health standards | via @GenKabiling pic.twitter.com/Yfnjt12tZf — Manila Bulletin News (@manilabulletin) May 12, 2020
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JUST IN: Low-risk provinces; wala na sa ilalim ng community quarantine. pic.twitter.com/mvkEO4Hj37 — DZBB Super Radyo (@dzbb) May 12, 2020
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The COVID19 pandemic presents a global crisis that is exacerbating violence against women and girls. @RV_VAC has created a series of Guidance Notes on preventing Violence Against Women during the pandemic. Download the notes here. https://t.co/tgoKpi05gh #FeministResponse pic.twitter.com/WB9c8MGX2u — GBV Prevention Net (@GBVnet) May 11, 2020
Ayala Land waived about P2.6-B worth of rent from tenants in its 32 shopping malls nationwide during the ECQ of Luzon and other key cities. It has also earmarked P600 million to assist no-work-no-pay workers in its eco-system @ANCALERTS — Michelle Krystle Ong (@michelle_d_ong) May 11, 2020
By Catherine S. Valente, TMT, Manila Times, 9 May 2020 Filipinos are “satisfied “with President Rodrigo Duterte’s leadership in the country’s response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, according to a foreign online survey.
The program aims to increase availability of credit from the banking sector and encourage more banks to lend to MSMEs affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.#COVID19PH#LagingHandaPH#WeHealAsOne pic.twitter.com/11exHG6bDL — Phil News Agency (@pnagovph) May 8, 2020
By: Ben O. de Vera, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 8 May 2020 The Philippine economy contracted for the first time in more than two decades during the first quarter, but economists warned on Thursday that the worst was likely yet to come as the country reeled from the coronavirus pandemic.
By Rey Elbo, Business World, 8 May 2020 It appears to me that the authorities have not issued any specific guidelines for companies that may be affected by the pandemic after the lifting of the lockdown. No, we are not talking about financial assistance, but how do we ensure that our workers and managers are…
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1102274 MANILA – Cash grants totaling PHP10.1 billion have been credited to more than 1.2 million employees of small businesses so far under the Small Business Wage Subsidy (SBWS) program as part of the Duterte administration’s efforts to provide relief to poor and low-middle-income families along with other vulnerable sectors hardest-hit by the economic fallout…
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By: Ben O. de Vera, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 7 May 2020 The COVID-19 lockdown imposed in Luzon and other parts of the country since mid-March already cost the Philippines forgone output worth 5.8 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP)—the highest in Asean-5, estimates of UK-based Oxford Economics provided to the Inquirer showed.
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
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