Just when I thought that when 2020 comes, we will be learning how to fly cars, how to live in another planet, how to learn new skills in an instant via chips inserted in our body, the Universe decided to teach us basic lessons.
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Julie Anne San Jose inspires with acapella of Stand By Me
Asia’s Pop Diva Julie Anne San Jose’s acapella cover of Stand By Me is inspiring people and netizens in the Philippines now under quarantine to stop the spread of the coronavirus disease or COVID-19.
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SM Group pledges 100M for health workers’ PPEs, medical supplies to PGH, RITM
SM Group has announced it will provide Php 100 million for personal protective equipment (PPEs) and medical supplies to assist healthcare workers at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) and Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM), two of the country’s leading institutions in the frontline during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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UP Diliman students collaborate to make easy-setup sanitation tents, free to use amid COVID-19 quarantine
A group of University of the Philippines Diliman (UP Diliman) students from various colleges has released an open letter about a collaborative project design for a sanitation tent that can be used to help stop the spread of the coronavirus disease or COVID-19, just hours after the Luzon-wide community quarantine was declared by the Philippine government on Monday.
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UP, Ateneo, La Salle help healthcare frontliners in fight against COVID-19
As the Philippines’ healthcare workers combat the coronavirus disease or COVID-19, the country’s top three universities have initiated providing assistance to the frontliners.
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Business Mentor: How is the Foundation of Your Business (Surviving COVID-19)
The Business Mentor shares insights from Mang Inasal’s Injap Sia on how businesses can survive crises like the COVID-19.
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Quezon City restaurants give free treats to healthcare workers on frontline of fight against COVID-19
Health workers, the workforce on the frontline of the fight against the now-pandemic coronavirus disease or COVID-19, are treated with freebies from restaurants in Quezon City in the Philippines.
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San Miguel Corp enhances COVID-19 safety measures for employees
In the face of the COVID-19 outbreak, Filipino multinational company San Miguel Corporation (SMC) has stepped up safety measures for its employees.
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Fil-Am comedian Jo Koy introduces Pinoy tabo as solution to toilet paper shortage
Filipino – American comedian Jo Koy has a new video introducing the “tabo” as a solution to toilet paper shortage that is apparently being experienced now in the United States and some countries amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
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NASA Space Apps Pinoy champion AEDES helps worldwide Coronatracker for COVID-19
The Pinoy champion team of Project Advanced Early Detection-Prediction and Exploration Service (Project AEDES), a dengue case predictor mapping system developed by a multi-university Philippine team that won in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Apps Challenge 2019 global hackathon, is also involved in a 100% open source worldwide initiative to map and analyze data on the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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#SalamatUP, “thank yous” to health workers trend online as COVID-19 escalates in Manila
As escalating cases of COVID-19 in Manila have placed health workers and scientists in the frontline of the fight to control the coronavirus disease, netizens went on Twitter and Facebook to express gratitude for their public service and sent hashtags #SalamatUP and the topic of “thank yous” to trending.
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PNU chemist teaches how to make homemade disinfectant amid COVID-19 outbreak
Philippine Normal University (PNU) chemist Janir Datukan went on television to teach Filipinos how to make homemade disinfectants amid the coronavirus disease or COVID-19 outbreak.
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