Palace says PCCI welcome to join Covid-19 task force meeting

By Prince Golez

Officials of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) may join the meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on the Emerging Infectious Diseases to discuss measures to address the coronavirus disease pandemic, Malacañang said.

PCCI President Benedicto Yujuico yesterday appealed for the inclusion of the private sector in the IATF, also called for a “holistic approach” to resuscitating the economy that has been sternly affected by the health crisis.

“The IATF welcomes any group, organization, or individual, outside the members of the IATF, to join the discussion of any of its meetings,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a statement released Friday.

“Officials of the PCCI can, therefore, serve as resource persons on matters related to trade, business, and the economy in the same way that IATF has invited health experts from different medical associations to give their inputs related to their field of expertise,” he added.

Roque said that President Rodrigo Duterte’s economic managers from the Department of Trade and Industry, Department of Finance, Department of Budget and Management, and the National Economic and Development Authority regularly join the task force meetings “so the concerns of the business sector are forwarded and discussed.”

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