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Over the past couple of weeks, as the whole world welcomed a new year with hearts full of hope and, in the case of the education sector, minds easing into a more open learning setup with limited face-to-face classes already in place in certain areas, it seemed that 2022 was going to be a year of recovery. All of this, however, was disturbed by the sudden surge in COVID-19 cases in the country.

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MEDIUM RARE

There has been an ongoing debate whether the National Capital Region (NCR) and other cities affected by the massive rise of new COVID cases should be placed under Alert Level 4. Some health experts have called on the IATF to raise the alarm level, citing increasing numbers of sick medical frontliners because of the virus. They say that it is only a matter of time before we experience a full-blown crisis.

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ENDEAVOR

OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT

OF TREES AND FOREST

As early as 2013, students have been identified as a vulnerable group which experiences significant levels of stress, anxiety and depression affecting their mental health (Regehr and Glancy, ‘Interventions to reduce stress in university students: a review and meta-analysis.’)