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What the community pantry movement means for Filipinos
Written by Juli Suazo
enablePagination: false Ana Patricia Non, the woman behind the Maginhawa Community Pantry. Photo courtesy of ANJO LAPRESCA
On a hot and scorching Wednesday afternoon, Ana Patricia Non walked along the streets of Maginhawa to find a spot that is both accessible and able to withhold sizable foot traffic. Somewhere in front of a Romantic Baboy and Ministop, she approached the owners of the place where she used to buy vegetables and requested permission to use the space for a community pantry. When it was granted, she rushed home to collect her already-packed goods, called for a tricycle, and quickly made her way back. She set up a bamboo cart along Maginhawa Street and stocked it with rice, vegetables, milk, vitamins, face masks, canned goods, soap and other essentials.
March 15, 2021 RECENT cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in Quezon City were caused by household transmission that stemmed from the workplace, a report by the city’s Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Unit (CESU) said.
Quezon City (QC), the most populous city in the Philippines with about three million people, also has the biggest number of infections.
In the last 14 days to March 14, there were a total of 3,585 new cases of infection in QC, according to the Department of Health (DOH) Covid-19 tracker.
There remained 2,991 active cases as of 8 a.m. of March 14, while 32,024 have recovered and 863 had died.
In a statement, the QC Government said the infections in the workplace are further spread in households when the affected employee goes home from work.
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The local government on Friday said the number of areas under special concern lockdown (SCL) already rose to 17, from 12 three days ago.
These new areas are:
Christ the King Mission Seminary, No. 101 E. Rodriguez Sr. Ave. in Barangay Kristong Hari (starting March 12)
No. 77 to Block 2 Lot 7 Orchids St., Freedom Park 3 in Barangay Batasan Hills (starting March 11)
No. 26 Mabituan St., Barangay Masambong (starting March 11)
The other areas under SCL are:
De Los Santos Compound, Heavenly Drive, Barangay San Agustin (starting March 1)
No. 46 and 50 K-9th Street, Barangay West Kamias (started March 3)
49 & 51 E Rodriguez Sr. Ave., Barangay Doña Josefa (started March 4)
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