President Rodrigo Duterte can go around the Philippines amid the COVID-19 crisis, according to the city mayor of Davao.
Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte said that President Rodrigo Duterte can go around the Philippines amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Sara Duterte, the city mayor of Davao, on Monday cited the guidelines issued by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID). As per the guidelines, state officials and government frontline personnel were allowed to move across and within areas in the Philippines.
In an interview on Davao City Disaster Radio, she said that her father, President Duterte, was the top frontliner of the Philippines, as such, he was allowed to move around the country.
This, after the President on Saturday went to Davao City in order to monitor the situation in Mindanao as well as he wanted to spend his time with his family after being away for over two months.
Meanwhile, DILG Secretary Eduardo Año, who served as the vice chairman of the National Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID), said that President Duterte was “one of those exemptions being the highest official of the land”, adding that the President had the authority to go anywhere he wanted “as long as health standards and protocol are observed”.
The national government implemented a modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) in the National Capital Region as well as Laguna and other areas in Central Luzon. On the other hand, the cities of Cebu and Mandaue were still on “strict lockdown” in order to contain the coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19.
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