Off to work: Commuters riding onboard a bus at a designated transport hub ahead of the evening curfew in Quezon City, Manila. — Bloomberg
“Jessica”, a saleswoman in a Metro Manila mall, was jobless for most of 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic raged.
She and her husband are contractual workers who earn minimum wage. The initial hard lockdown put them, along with millions of others, out of work.
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