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Hindi malinaw ang pagbibigay ng impormasyon at sistema ng komunikasyon sa mga taong maaaring magkasakit kaya lumawak ang maraming maling impormasyon ukol sa ginagawa ng pamahalaan. Walang pagsasaalang-alang sa kabuhayan ng mga tao sakaling magkaroon ng malawakang kwarantenas sa mga naaapektuhang lugar.
The only certainty we now have is that we have been left to fend for ourselves. This administration absolves itself of any responsibility to mind the ordinary people’s survival.
“Instead of imposing unnecessary requirements, we expect government to provide an atmosphere conducive to press freedom.”
Amid the calls to “stay at home” and “work at home,” an urban poor group said thousands of Filipinos do not have roofs over their heads in the first place.
Teresita Naul, Karapatan National Council member and Bayan Muna member was arrested by members of the 4th Infantry Division. She was charged with kidnapping, illegal detention and arson.
"We are aware that we need to contribute to the resolution of this emergency and we can do it best by doing our jobs as journalists."
“The community quarantine or lockdown over Metro Manila spells forced hunger to millions of low-income workers who cannot afford to skip a day despite the current COVID-19 pandemic.”
The workers need economic packages such as a month's worth of salary that should be subsidized by the government or their company, moratorium on electricity and water bill collections or one month subsidy for these utilities.
“If Italy and other developed countries could admit that their health care systems could collapse in the advent of disease outbreak, then what more in our own country where health care is inaccessible and highly privatized? Duterte’s assurance is for the police and the military, not for us and our families in the Philippines.”
Sa pamumuno ni Lorena Barros, inilunsad ng MAKIBAKA ang maraming protesta laban sa kahirapan at para sa demokratisasyon ng lipunan. Tiningnan nilang hindi pa malaya ang sambayanan at dominante pa rin ang mga dayuhan at mayayaman sa lipunan. Higit pa roon, binigyang diin niil na hindi magiging ganap ang kalayaan hangga’t hindi pa napalalaya ang lipunan.
Let us demand what our communities need the most – public health education, free testing, water supply, sanitation, subsidy.
“The problem with the current policy is that we are operating under the premise of very little budget, that’s why there’s a shortage of COVID-19 test kits. And people would have to pay for it first."
Women's group Gabriela said that military deployment is not the answer to prevent the pandemic, and instead called on the government to provide free, accessible healthcare and concrete solutions for the marginalized sectors which are the most affected in this situation.
From 2016 to 2019 alone, the public health program’s total budget allocation has been reduced significantly, varying from 15-percent to 28-percent cut.
For one, the budget for Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, the lead public hospital in the government’s effort to address the looming outbreak, has been slashed from P263 million in 2019 to P115 million in 2020.
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