{"id":987524414,"date":"2021-09-24T03:35:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T02:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/news\/philippines-provides-cash-aid-to-covid-infected-employees\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:59:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:59:49","slug":"philippines-provides-cash-aid-to-covid-infected-employees","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/news\/philippines-provides-cash-aid-to-covid-infected-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines provides cash aid to COVID-infected employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>In the Philippines, workers who had been infected with COVID-19 can now apply for financial support&nbsp;to the Employees\u2019 Compensation Commission (ECC) <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span>through a courier service. This benefit covers both sickness and death due to COVID-19.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>The COVID-19 has been added&nbsp;into the list of occupational and work-related diseases.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>The&nbsp;recipients will&nbsp;receive cash benefits&nbsp;of P10,000. The ECC board has&nbsp;already requested to raise&nbsp;the financial aid to P30,000 and now is in the approval&nbsp;process.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span><span><span>To read more, <a href=\"https:\/\/mb.com.ph\/2021\/09\/20\/covid-infected-employees-can-apply-for-cash-aid-through-courier-service-ecc\/\">click<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Source:&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Manila Bulletin&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Picture by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@gabby-k\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabby K<\/a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/5849577\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pexels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Philippines, workers who had been infected with COVID-19 can now apply for financial support&nbsp;to the Employees\u2019 Compensation Commission (ECC) through a courier service. This benefit covers both sickness and death due to COVID-19.&nbsp; The COVID-19 has been added&nbsp;into the list of occupational and work-related diseases. The&nbsp;recipients will&nbsp;receive cash benefits&nbsp;of P10,000. The ECC board&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":987529033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[118,123,2316,124,135],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987529033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}