News Roundup 07 April 2020
Apr 07, 2020 • 1 min Read
Lacson, local execs flag gaps in cash subsidy program | INQUIRER.NET – Two out of every five target beneficiaries of the government’s cash subsidy program may not get financial aid if the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) does not update its database on families that need the assistance, Sen. Panfilo Lacson said on Monday. “The gap averaged at least 40 percent nationwide,’’ Lacson said. “A bottom-up approach should be adopted instead of a top-down method, subject, of course, to validation”.
Duterte approves Luzon-wide community quarantine until April 30 | PHILSTAR.COM – The enhanced community quarantine in Luzon is extended until April 30, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said Tuesday.
Labor unions ask for simplified requirements for access to social amelioration programs | Manila Bulletin – The Associated Labor Unions has expressed hope that the additional P5 billion cash assistance intended for employees rendered jobless by the enhanced community quarantine will help workers and their families cope with the quarantine’s two-week extension. “We continue to hope the additional P5-billion fund will help mollify the Filipino workforce who have been growing impatient over red tapes that are keeping the greater many from access to the cash assistance lifeline during this lockdown,” Gerard Seno, executive vice president of ALU, said in a statement.
Asian Hospital doc dies of Covid-19 | The Manila Times – A doctor of the Asian Hospital and Medical Center on Monday succumbed to the coronavirus disease 2019. Dr. Mary Grace Lim, 40, of the Department of Emergency Medicine and Quality Management Department, died on duty while fighting the novel coronavirus, the hospital confirmed.
