Philippines to hire contact-tracers 'en masse,' restart 'Build Build Build' COVID19Quarantine
MANILA -- The Philippines will "restart and accelerate" its P8 trillion infrastructure program, hire contact-tracers "en masse" and push food production as part of efforts to reboot the economy from the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of President Rodrigo Duterte's economic team said Tuesday.
Watch more in iWant or TFC.tv Last week, the Philippines reported a 0.2-percent shrinkage in first quarter gross domestic product, the first contraction since 1998. The 2 succeeding quarters are expected to show contractions as the full effect of the lockdown is reflected. "Our real problem is that the people are not buying things because their incomes have gone down. We must provide them the means of buying tings," he said.Contact tracers will be hired "en masse to boost efforts to stop transmissions and defeat" the pandemic, he said.
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