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Celebrate Life with Ortigas Malls

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Celebrate Life with Ortigas Malls for new active lifestyle places and convenient online services.  With the shifting of the Community Quarantine guidelines, many have already gone to their most-frequented malls to visit their favorite restaurants and shop in their favorite stores.  Re-opening of salons and dine-in restaurants With people eager to have their hair cut after being in quarantine for almost three months, salons in Ortigas Malls finally opened their doors to mall goers with strict sanitary measures and 50% capacity, making more room for those who are in need of a haircut, hair recoloring, or a pedicure.  Well-loved restaurants in Ortigas malls such as Kimpura, Gloria Maris, Manam and Wildflour have already started accepting dine-in customers. They don’t only provide safe dine-in options with acrylic dividers and observe allowed maximum capacity with social distancing, but also offer exciting deals to guests! Cashless Parking and Car W...

COVID-19 Update: Newfound discovery makes some dishwashing liquids effective home disinfectant.

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In response to the global coronavirus pandemic, Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) commissioned the National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE) to look into other options for disinfecting homes and workplaces. This was undertaken to mitigate global alcohol shortage, and cope with the sudden surge in demands of alcohol disinfectant at medical facilities as well as home and workplace environments.  Lab studies conducted by METI/NITE have proven that some cleaning actives also known as surfactants, when used at the right levels, can be effective against SARS-CoV-2 which causes COVID-19. Test findings by Japan’s NITE have confirmed that there is a significant reduction in the virus count on items or surfaces that are exposed to a surfactant diluted to 0.05%-0.2% for twenty seconds to five minutes. According to the review committee of experts, these seven types of surfactants are commonly found in household products like dishwashing liquids.  ...