A cop with a safety stick is seen doing his inspections rounds at a residential area in Manila on Monday (Apr 27). The lockdown imposed since mid-March to stop the spread of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak has displaced over two million workers in the Philippines, the Philippine government data showed. - Reuters
MANILA: The lockdown imposed since mid-March to stop the spread of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak has displaced over two million workers in the Philippines, the Philippine government data showed.
"Reports from Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) regional offices showed a continued swelling of the number of displaced workers," the country's Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello said in a statement over the weekend.
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