THE GOVERNMENT is considering prolonging the country’s state of public health emergency until the end of this year in an effort to further contain the spread of the deadly Covid-19 respiratory disease and to be able to continue receiving international medical aid.
The previous Duterte administration
declared a state of public health emergency throughout the country in March
2020 because of the pandemic. The state of public health emergency calls for
the public to adhere to the response mechanisms of the government, particularly
the utilization of resources to contain the spread of the virus.
“We were just discussing it
with (Department of Health) Usec. (Maria Rosario) Vergeire because maraming mga
binibigay sa international medical community kapag state of emergency. (The) WHO
(World Health Organization) is one of them at kung itigil natin ‘yung state of
emergency, matitigil ‘yun,” Marcos said.
“But if we can change — we
are looking at amending the law in terms of procurement and all of that in the
middle of an emergency. But that will take time. So malamang we will extend it
until the end of the year,” he added.
The Department of Health said
the country has over 36,000 active Covid-19 cases. (Mindanao Examiner)
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