The business community in Visayas is pushing for a halt in the usage of pen and paper in the contact tracing system.

Even without proper business continuity plan, most micro-small and medium businesses in the creative sector expressed confidence on faster recovery.

While the world, as a whole, is still reeling from the ill-effects of the coronavirus disease 2019, some tycoons in the country are continuing to expand their business empires.

The Aboitiz Group fully supports the Department of Trade and Industry’s appeal to prioritize the use of Philippine-made materials in the administration’s Build, Build, Build program to help jumpstart the economy and sustain jobs for Filipinos amid the ongoing health crisis.

Even with lockdowns rolled back, the local economy is still poised to contract further this quarter and sink deeper into recession, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said on Thursday.