Gov’t assigns Cabinet execs to help LGUs in coronavirus crisis

By Prince Golez

The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) has assigned Cabinet members to provide “stronger support” to local government units with high coronavirus (Covid-19) cases.

Its latest directive was contained in Resolution 62 approved on Wednesday.

The move, according to the IATF, will “further operationalize the national government-enabled, local government-led, and people-centered response” against Covid-19.

Here are the Cabinet members’ respective assignments:

-Health Secretary Francisco Duque III and Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles (Quezon City)

-Education Secretary Leonor Briones and Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo Puyat (Pasig City)

-Metropolitan Manila Development Authority chairman Danilo Lim (Pateros)

-Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III and Commissioner on Higher Education chairperson Prospero de Vera III (Marikina City and Malabon City)

-Interior Secretary Eduardo Año and testing czar Vivencio Dizon (Taguig City)

-Information and Communications Technology Secretary Gregorio Honasan II and Anti-Red Tape Authority director general Jeremiah Belgica (Manila City)

-Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez (Mandaluyong City)

-National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. (Makati City)

-Socioeconomic Planning acting secretary Karl Kendrick Chua (Muntinlupa City)

-National Task Force Covid-19 chief implementer Carlito Galvez Jr. (Parañaque City)

-Public Works Secretary Mark Villar (Las Piñas City)

-Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Jr. (Pasay City)

-Agriculture Secretary William Dar (Caloocan City)

-Budget Secretary Wendel Avisado (Navotas City)

-Science and Technology Secretary Fortunato dela Peña (Valenzuela City)

-Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra (Bulacan)

-Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana (Cavite)

-Communications Secretary Martin Andanar (Laguna)

-Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi (Rizal)

The resolution also mandates the IATF members to strictly monitor health system performance, critical care capacity, and stringent compliance to surveillance, isolation, and treatment protocols.

Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)