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Rightfully hailed as heroes of the pandemic, the Philippines on May 7 marked Health Workers Day under quarantine for the second straight year.
Under constant stress due to fear of getting sick, separation from their loved ones and stigmatization, our frontliners battle threats of depression and anxiety while fighting COVID-19.
There are ways to seek help for frontliners, or for anyone for that matter who is feeling the strain of the world's longest virus quarantine.
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A surge in infections in March forced a new lockdown or ECQ in Metro Manila, Laguna, Cavite, Rizal and Bulacan, which was later downgraded one notch to MECQ, scheduled to last until May 14.
Like the MECQ in mid 2020, the reimposition of tight restrictions was meant to give frontliners and the health system room to breathe.
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