EDITORIALS-CARTOONS: Editor’s Choice – Help the most vulnerable
THE EDITOR
Stock up on this
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It is easy to get disheartened by what is going on. The global pandemic continues to wreak havoc on many countries. It has reached home, threatening our way of life.With the announcement Monday night of an enhanced community quarantine covering the entire Luzon, Filipinos, already reeling from fear and worry, also find themselves adjusting to the drastic situation where only limited services are available and public transportation is nonexistent.
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Help the most vulnerable
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President Duterte’s declaration Monday night of the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine to contain the COVID-19 outbreak was met with great trepidation by millions of workers, particularly those who barely survive on a measly daily wage.
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EDITORIAL – Enhanced quarantine
If the government wants public cooperation in efforts to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019, it should improve its messaging and implementation of measures against COVID-19.
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EDITORYAL – Face masks at sasakyan, i-provide sa health workers
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Matapos ihayag ni President Duterte ang enhanced community quarantine noong Lunes, hindi malaman ng mga manggagawa kung paano papasok sa kanilang trabaho sapagkat sinuspinde na ang biyahe ang mga pampublikong sasakyan. Pati Metro Rail Transit ay tinigil na ang operasyon. Marami ang naglakad kahapon. Layunin ng pamahalaan na mapigil ang pagkalat ng COVID-19 na umaabot na sa 142 kaso at 12 na ang namamatay.
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SG EDITORIAL:
The Straits Times says
Picking leaders to tackle the crisis
Should elections be delayed? Or should states press on with them even during a global pandemic?
Singaporeans have been mulling over this since last Friday, when the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee released its report, heralding the start of election season here. The Writ of Election is often issued soon after – within one day of the boundaries report’s release in 2001 and about two months in 2011. Elections are due before April 21, 2021. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who will decide on the timing, has said that the date will depend on what will best see Singapore through the major crisis posed by the coronavirus pandemic. As the Covid-19 outbreak will likely last till the year end, possibly longer, he can wait and hope things get better before holding the polls. Or he can go for earlier elections before things get worse, as many have been warning that they will, despite Singapore’s best efforts to “flatten the curve” of the outbreak, which buys more time for the healthcare system to deal with the crisis.
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Vikram Khanna
Economic Affairs: Why the Covid-19 financial crisis will get worse
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A war on the disease is also a war on the economy
Economic policy bazookas are going off everywhere. On Sunday, the US Federal Reserve went full tilt, slashing the Fed funds rate by 1 percentage point to near zero, having already cut half a percentage point on March 3, plus taken steps to expand its balance sheet by buying bonds, as well as extending short-term credit to banks.
In an emergency meeting on Monday, the Bank of Japan decided to double the amount of money it pours in the Tokyo stock market. In Europe, the German government abandoned its longstanding balanced budget mindset, pledging unlimited cash to businesses hit by the coronavirus. China injected an additional US$78 billion (S$110 billion) into its banking system. Several other countries cut rates. The leaders of the Group of Seven industrial countries vowed to do “whatever is necessary” to hold up the global economy.
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