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It’s been two years since the COVID-19 pandemic and there’s a growing dangerous sense of complacency, spread in part by a word that’s taken on magical meanings: endemicity.
It doesn’t help that the word ends with, well, “end,” suggesting we’re seeing the end of this terrible scourge that has infected (...)
MANILA – It was Tuesday, Jan. 18, when Pauline Budy, 40-year-old nurse, began to feel the symptoms of the dreaded COVID-19. A day later, she, her husband, and their two children aged four and five tested positive for the virus. They were confined at San Lazaro Hospital for seven days where (...)
In October 2021 discrepancies in distribution and funding of the Philippines government’s Social Amelioration Program (SAP) were queried by Senator Panfilo (Ping) Lacson during a Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) budget hearing. The DSWD claimed to have disbursed 94% of SAP aid (...)
MANILA – It was January 5 when the sister of Margaux, not her real name, began to show symptoms of the dreaded COVID-19. The cost of testing was shouldered by her sister’s company and the rest of the family members quarantined themselves as soon as she received the positive result six days later. (...)
After the “no vaccination, no ride” policy began its implementation on Monday, the public has called on the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to reconsider the new scheme for being allegedly “anti-poor.”
The transport bureau’s order currently bars both unvaccinated and partially vaccinated (...)
MANILA, Philippines — The government’s “no vaccination, no ride” policy in Metro Manila “discriminates” against the poor and gives car owners a free pass, a worker’s group said Friday.
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) earlier said that starting Monday, only commuters who are fully vaccinated (...)
With over 2.8 million confirmed cases and 50,341 deaths from COVID-19, the Philippines is suffering one of the worst outbreaks in Southeast Asia. However, despite its dire situation, the country has been made to wait for vaccines from rich and vaccine-producing countries. Indeed, only 38% of (...)
In Iloilo province, 56% of healthcare workers who had contracted Covid-19 as of May 31, 2021 were “contract of service” or “job order” personnel. Hospitals relied on them to augment the workforce amid the pandemic, but without giving sufficient protection and benefits.
Gerry* has been working for (...)
Nation plumbs the depths of global Covid rankings in the latest indictment of President Duterte’s poor pandemic response
MANILA – Despite a series of lockdowns and some of the most stringent social distancing measures worldwide, the Philippines is still consistently ranked among the global (...)
Understaffed, underpaid and overworked to the point of exhaustion, staff battle on to care for virus victims
Exhausted nurses in the Philippines are struggling to care for patients as colleagues contract Covid-19 or quit a profession that was dangerously understaffed even before the pandemic. (...)
(1st UPDATE) To cut down on PPE costs, the nurses were asked to wear adult diapers and work for 12 hours per shift in a COVID-19 facility.
Many nurses at the city hall-run Dr. Jorge P. Royeca Memorial Hospital (DJPRMH) have left and found work elsewhere due to pressures and poor working (...)
The daily Jeddojehad [Struggle], a leftwing online Urdu-language daily in Pakistan is posting reports from Kabul. Filed by Yasmeen Afghan [not the real name], these reports depict picture from inside Kabul and cover what is often ignored in the mainstream. For a wider circulation, these reports (...)
As elsewhere, the Delta variant has become dominant in the Philippines, causing a new wave of infections, more serious than the previous one. Despite this, the Duterte presidency is acting as if the epidemic is already behind us. The proposed budget, currently under legislative discussion, does (...)
Participants of the demonstrations repeat their demand for Health Secretary Francisco Duque to resign over his failure to attend to the needs of frontline workers.
MANILA, Philippines
Pandemic health workers who have had enough of the meager pay that comes with their dangerous job took to the (...)
Bad pay and conditions at home and demand for Filipino nursing skills overseas have left the country with a soaring death rate.
The Covid Delta variant has swept across south-east Asia over recent months, prompting lockdowns and overwhelming hospitals – from Malaysia to Thailand and Indonesia. (...)
Bad pay and conditions at home and demand for Filipino nursing skills overseas have left the country with a soaring death rate
The Covid Delta variant has swept across south-east Asia over recent months, prompting lockdowns and overwhelming hospitals – from Malaysia to Thailand and Indonesia. (...)
The Philippines’ government has to change course on the pandemic and focus on helping the poor stay afloat.
In the past couple of weeks, community pantries have mushroomed all over the Philippines. The poor, left with no other options, formed long lines in the summer heat, under threat of (...)
A year has passed since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the Philippines and recovery is still nowhere near in sight. The Department of Health (DoH) has noted that the total number of cases has surpassed 1.2 million, in a country of more than a 100 million (DoH, 28 May 2021). In an attempt to contain (...)
Continuing Executive Dominance, Threats to Democracy, and Unclear Pandemic Response
The Philippines have one of the longest lockdowns in the world in response to COVID-19. This post reviews the past year, focusing on the main legal and political issues as well as prospects in the country with (...)
According to the World Health Organisation, the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the Philippines on 20 January 2020. More than a year after, there are now more than 600,000 confirmed cases, nearly 13,000 deaths and a surge of 5000 new cases in one day. Approximately 41 percent of the (...)
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