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// May 19, 2020
MAY
19
2020

Transport joins testing, tracking as urgent problems, but ‘ghosted’ by gov’t stimulus plan

“Test, track and treat” are not the only concerns of workers. Travel and transport are, too. They can only get back to work if they can go to places of work safely without COVID hitching a ride. But the new normal in the pandemic world calls for public transport with reduced
MAY
19
2020

P100 B left in SAP money for Part 2 distribution even in GCQ areas—Recto

Senators who wrote the provision in the Bayanihan to Heal As One Act granting P200 billion in cash aid to the poor said the second installment should still be given to beneficiaries even if their residence has been downgraded to a general quarantine area. “Klaro sa records ng
MAY
19
2020

Stimulus requires “medicine cabinet”, not band aid approach—Recto

Government’s economic stimulus package “should be as big and as bold” as the problem it is addressing, as “any piecemeal approach will just be wasting money without achieving the desired goals,” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said.  Recto said he understands