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MANILA -- Leila, a logistics nurse in a government hospital, went to pick up donations from a private company after her duty. When she arrived there, she saw the boxes stacked neatly at the lobby ready for pick up.

Iloilo City is also feeling the stress of corona virus.But it is coping beautifully with synchronized initiatives from both the public and private sectors.

The promised food and money assistance finally came the day after violence broke out Wednesday when residents of Sitio San Roque in Quezon City staged a protest against the city government neglect of them three weeks into the lockdown due to COVID-19.

Hours after Malacanang released Administrative Order No. 27 consolidating under the Office of Civil Defense all donations of medical equipment and supplies to the national government or the Department of Health in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, social media platforms were swamped with photos of relief goods with the name of Sen. Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go on the boxes.

Sen. Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao’s claim that the “coronavirus issue” had not reached the Philippines until later in March is false.

Beneath the silence of the streets devoid of moving vehicles, the feeling of anxiety, fear and sadness is deeply palpable. Photos by Luis Liwanag.

I thought I’d never live to see deserted streets and empty church and empty schools before holy week.

Artists and cultural workers in the Philippines brace for difficult times as the Cultural Center of the Philippines closed, three major orchestras on forced vacation and so did several theater companies and independent promoters of classical music.

President Duterte erroneously claimed that every single country in the world has imposed a lockdown in response to the rising cases of COVID-19.

May ilang child car seats na may expiration dates at may ilang wala. Pero hindi ba nalalagay sa alanganin ang kaligtasan ng mga bata sa kung ito ay expired?

Aware of the limited number of testing kits for coronavirus disease (COVID-19), high government officials still hurried to have themselves tested even if they did not show any of the symptoms of infection. Hence, they earned public criticism for bypassing protocols and kept people asking who should undergo testing and who should heal at home.

​Amid the controversy over the alleged prioritization of asymptomatic top government officials for COVID-19 testing over patients with symptoms, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III issued a memorandum on Saturday assigning Assistant Secretary Nestor Santiago as officer in charge-director of the, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM).