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DUTERTE TAKES ACTION

President Duterte met Monday (April 13) in Malacañang with the members of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Coronavirus Crisis.  Many interesting things came up and were decided upon. Addressing the group extemporaneously and looking […]

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FIGHTING SARS COV-2

Why is there need for lockdown and social distancing?  The answer lies in what is called reproductive number of the virus.  To stop it, the reproductive number must be 1 or 0, what scientists call […]

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BUST AND RESCUE

Coronavirus Disease (2019) COVID-19 now poses a more serious downside risk to the global economy. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11 to signify its severity and global […]

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CASH FOR THE POOR

Working overtime on March 23 and 24, Congress approved an emergency powers bill giving President Duterte broad powers to raise or reallocate taxpayers’ money to fight the spread of COVID-19, the respiratory and pneumonia-like disease […]