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Billionaires’ share of global wealth soars during pandemic
Ali Bekhtaoui, Agence France-Presse Posted at Dec 07 2021, news.abs-cbn.com The share of global wealth of the world’s richest people soared at a record pace during the COVID-19 pandemic, a report on inequality showed Tuesday. Since 1995, the slice held by billionaires has risen from one percent to three percent, according to the World Inequality…
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The Hidden Side of the Vaccine Passport Debate
By Michelle Chermaine RamosThe Philippine Reporter, Canada, December 03, 2021 According to the government of Canada’s vaccination coverage data updated November 15, 2021, 74.59% of the total population has been fully vaccinated while 77.97% has received at least one dose. However, there are still many who remain on the fence and there are those who…
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[Newspoint] Duterte is the issue
Oct 8, 2021, Vergel O. Santos ‘The overarching issue is Duterte himself. He is repression, he is militarization, he is terrorism. He is EJK. He is corruption. He is China. He is the pandemic.’ Until Leni Robredo declared herself in the running for the presidency, there had been no genuine opposition to Duterte; there had…
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Why stop the hearings?
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer /September 24, 2021 The ironically named House committee on good government and accountability has slammed as “political” the Senate probe into the Pharmally deal, which has so far revealed how, among other anomalies, a small favored foreign supplier cornered a multibillion government contract for face masks, personal protective equipment, and test…
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Hospital ‘heroes’ protest: We’ve lost trust in DOH
By: Dona Z. Pazzibugan, Maricar Cinco -Philippine Daily Inquirer / August 31, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — As Filipinos celebrated them as modern-day heroes, medical workers protested outside their hospital duty hours on National Heroes’ Day on Monday, setting the scene for bigger rallies that may include walk-outs or mass resignations until the government releases their…
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Delta is ‘pandemic of unvaccinated’ bigger than breakthrough infections
By: Tony S. Bergonia -INQUIRER.net / August 16, 2021 MANILA, Philippines—The spread of Delta, a variant of SARS Cov2, is now considered as a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” which is making vaccination a more urgent measure to fight COVID-19 even if rare infections emerge among those already fully vaccinated. Scientists are one in concluding that…
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Pandemic sinks PH poor even deeper
By: Kurt Dela Peña – Content Researcher Writer / INQUIRER.net /July 14, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Many poor Filipino families might have thought they had already hit rock bottom before the COVID pandemic struck. At the bottom of many things, there would have been no option but to rise. But the bottom kept sinking deeper…
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