
News by Country: Philippines
8 January 2021
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Philippines
central bank to help in loans to small businesses (The Star, 19 April 2020)
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766
healthcare workers in Philippines test positive for Covid-19 (The Star, 18 April 2020)
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Philippine
President Duterte threatens martial law-like COVID-19 crackdown (CNA, 17 April 2020)
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U.S. provides additional PHP66 million to support
Philippines COVID-19 response (reliefweb,
16 April 2020)
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Duterte’s Response to the Coronavirus: ‘Shoot Them
Dead’ (FP News, 16 April
2020)
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UBX mobile ATMs to expedite Philippine gov’t Covid-19
subsidies (The Asset, 16 April 2020)
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Commentary: Philippines’ COVID-19 fight depends on the
exploitation of healthcare workers (CNA,
15 April 2020)
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Volunteer nurses told to sign waiver clearing DOH if
they contract COVID-19, nurses' group says (ABS-CBN, 15 April 2020)
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Poverty punished as Philippines gets tough in virus
pandemic (Al Jazeera,
14 April 2020)
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Philippines to pay debts amid COVID-19 pandemic, says
DOF (GMA News, 14 April
2020)
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Coronavirus pandemic forces over 12,000 Filipino
workers to return to PH (Rappler,
12 April 2020)
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Philippines: Hospitals must cremate Covid-19 victims
in 12 hours, death toll now at 297 (The Star, 12 April
2020)
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Philippines bars doctors from going abroad amid
Covid-19 spread (The Star, 11 April 2020)
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World Bank approves $500 million loan for Philippines
to fight COVID-19 (ABS-CBN,
10 April 2020)
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Philippines launches tracking, emergency response app
in fight vs. COVID-19 (ABS-CBN,
9 April 2020)
· Business,
labor groups want more aid for workers (Philstar, 9
April 2020)
· Duterte
extends Philippines's coronavirus lockdown to April 30
(Al Jazeera, 7 April 2020)
· Teleperformance
workers in the Philippines are enduring “subhuman” conditions
(UNI,
4 April 2020)
· Duterte
says lockdown protesters can be shot if they fight
(The
Jakarta Post, 2 April 2020)
· ADB Launches
$5 Million Project to Provide Food Supplies to Philippine Households Hard Hit
by COVID-19 (ADB, 1 April
2020)
· Philippines
- NAGKAISA and KMU Joint Statement on the Government’s Response to the COVID-19
Pandemic (KMU) (ITUC, 22 March 2020)
· Workers demands (KMU): Paid quarantine leave, most effective to
limit people from leaving home for work (ITUC, 20
March 2020)