The EcoWaste Coalition has underscored the need to separate waste materials contaminated by the new coronavirus from recyclable items as a way of protecting informal waste workers and recyclers from getting infected with the deadly coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Photo by Pawel Czerwinski/...
When we can freely breathe again? We’re living in a different time now. Gone are the days we could breathe freely. Today, breathing freely even in seclusion or even in nature, such as in the empty parks or the empty tree-lined streets of our neighborhoods within the cities during quarantine, can...
As Christmastime comes around the corner, so does the mandatory use of both face mask and face shield take into full effect as well, as recently announced by the Inter Agency Task Force for Emerging Diseases (ITAF). Given the more relaxed quarantine protocols this time of the year, we have to be...
Shoppers caught wearing Powered Air Purifying Respirator (PAPR) inside Guadalupe Mall A photo of two people wearing a Powered Air Purifying Respirator (PAPR) each is now getting traction on Juan Punch Man page. The said photo was posted by different Facebook users in with a common caption: ...
The risks I’m taking, the challenges I’m facing, and the dangers I’m exposing myself and my family to A batchmate’s daughter recently asked me what it was like to be a frontliner which led me to share how my life had been since the Covid-19 took over the world. So I’m a general surgeon by...
The government had purchased personal protective equipment (PPE) in 2015 and 2016 at prices double the present market cost, the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM) revealed yesterday. Based on the PS-DBM documents provided by Budget...
