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The Dumagat tribe in upland Brgy. Puray in Rodriguez, Rizal has remained free from Covid-19 but pandemic lockdowns are hitting them where it hurts the most – their livelihood.

Community fishermen are typically poor and buried in debt as they lose out to dynamite fishing as well as commercial fishing boats intruding into municipal waters. A proposed law will exacerbate their woes.

What happens when a family gets Covid-19 and the hospitals are full? Young mother Angelica Carballo Pago badgered the barangay to get assistance, ordered an oxygen concentrator on Lazada, relied on a friend to provide medical advice, but mostly counted on herself to make sure her family survived the ordeal.

Baguio was named to the Unesco Creative Cities Network in 2017. The city’s artists evaluate their performance four years later as the UN body is set to review the designation.