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More women dropping out of the labor force–PSA By Cai U. Ordinario

VER 19 million women aged 15 and over are not part of the labor force based on the latest results from the Labor Force Survey (LFS) conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). On Tuesday, the PSA reported that the number of jobless Filipinos reached 4 million in January and the underemployed, 6.6 million. Data showed that while there are a total of 37.2 million women in the 15 years old and over age group, only 17.455 million are in the labor force in January. “The top five reasons why women opted to be out of the labor force in January 2021 based on the LFS were schooling (especially for

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ages 15 to 18 years old); household family duties (especially for ages 25 to 44 years old),” PSA Assistant National Statistician Wilma Guillen said. “[Other reasons include the] ECQ/lockdown/Covid-19 pandemic; temporary illness/disability; [and] awaiting results of previous job application,” she added. Guillen said the number of women who are not part of the labor force in January—which reached 19.745 million—was higher than the 18.708 million in January 2020. This meant there were 1.037 million more women who dropped out of the labor force in January 2021 compared to January 2020. In terms of the labor force participation rate (LFPR), more men were in the labor force compared to

women in January 2021. The LFPR among men was at 73.9 percent while for women it is at 46.9 percent in January 2021. The employment rate of men was also slightly higher at 91.3 percent; women registered an employment rate of 91.2 percent in January 2021. The unemployment rate among women, however, was higher at 8.8 percent in January 2021 compared to men, 8.7 percent. In terms of underemployment, nonetheless, there were more men who were underemployed at 17.6 percent, significantly higher than the 13.4 percent posted by women in January 2021. “The crisis and lockdowns really hit women hard, particularly among mothers and single-mother breadwinners. Some of the activities that

they did and are doing to cope with the crisis and keep the family intact or surviving are usually not reflected in the PSA data, such as networking to get social amelioration,” former dean of the School of Labor and Industrial Relations (Solair) Rene E. Ofreneo told the BusinessMirror in an e-mail. Ofreneo noted that while there was an increase in the number of women who joined the labor force in January 2021 compared to October 2020, this is not something to celebrate. Based on PSA data, in January 2021, there were 17.455 million women in the labor force, 851,000 more than the 16.604 million in the labor force in October 2020. On an annual basis, Ofreneo added, 107,000 women dropped Continued on A2

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RALLY STALL RECOVERY LET PALACE DECLARE STATE OF EMERGENCY OVER ASF, D.A. TOLD By Jasper Emmanuel Y. Arcalas

S POLICE trainees conduct foot patrol in Provident Village, Marikina City, on Tuesday, March 9, to ensure that social-distancing protocols and wearing of face mask and face shields are followed. A surge in Covid-19 cases in Metro Manila has prompted authorities to consider increasing police visibility in public places. NONOY LACZA

By Cai U. Ordinario

HE recent oil price rally could make the recovery of the manufacturing sector and consumption spending even more challenging this year, according to local economists.

This after the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported that the country’s manufacturing output continued to decline and posted a contraction of 16.7 percent in January 2021. The sector’s average capacity utilization rate was at 46.1 percent. It is already the second consecutive month that the average capacity uti-

lization rate was below 50 percent. “Global oil prices have surged about 30 percent this year due to coordinated supply constraints by oil producers. This price level is the first time since January 2020,” UnionBank Chief Economist Ruben Carlo Asuncion told the BusinessMirror. Continued on A2

Remittances to bounce back in 2021, say experts By Bianca Cuaresma

FTER a year of contraction, remittances to the Philippines will likely bounce back this year as advanced economies, especially those in the Middle East, are expected to recover. Analysts from the University

of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) and First Metro Investment Corporation (FMIC) said they expect Filipino migrant workers to send more money this year compared to last year. “OFW remittances will retake the positive territory even as the 2020 record showed only a slight

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0.8-percent dip,” FMIC and UA&P analysts said in the latest issue of The Market Call. Just last month, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) announced that overseas Filipino workers’ (OFWs) cash remittances to the Philippines hit $29.9 billion for the full year of 2020, only

$230 million short of what they sent when the global economy was not affected by the pandemic yet in 2019 at $30.13 billion. The 0.8-percent decline in remittances also exceeded the BSP’s expectations that remittances will decrease by about 2 percent.

ENATORS on Tuesday urged the Department of Agriculture (DA) to request President Duterte to declare a state of emergency due to African Swine Fever (ASF) to access additional funds to support the domestic hog industry against the fatal disease. The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Food and Agrarian Reform passed a resolution urging the DA to recommend to the Office of the President (OP) the declaration of a state of emergency nationwide due to the consequences of ASF. The declaration of a state of emergency would allow the realignment or release of additional public funds to address the problems caused by ASF, such as dwindling pig herd, the senators said. “We are urging the DA to [ask the OP] to declare a state of emergency against African Swine Fever, so we can allocate more funds to solve the problem,” said Sen. Cynthia A. Villar, the committee's chairman. The senators also moved for the inclusion of an indemnification fund for both the backyard and commercial hog raisers that were affected by ASF upon the declaration of a state of emergency. The senators made the resolution as they indicated dismay with the amount that DA is allocating for its programs to combat ASF and help the hog industry recover. “The public emergency declaration will now address the miniscule funds allocated [by the DA for solving ASF problems]. The tariffs collected from the imports could also be added to the fund under the public emergency,” Sen. Francis N. Pangilinan said. The DA supported the senators’ proposal and told them that the agency will follow the resolution of the committee. During the hearing, the DA officials disclosed that it would need at least P34.333 billion to bankroll its three-year ASF recovery program that seeks to bring back and even exceed the country’s pre-ASF pork production level. The DA said for 2021 it would need a total budget of P9.161 billion, P13.561 billion for 2022 and P11.611 billion for 2023. The funds would be used to finance the four DA programs: calibrated repopulation and intensified production; establishment of swine breeder multiplier farms; provision of insurance premium; and biosecurity and surveillance programs. For 2021, the DA said it only has P2.372 billion of available funds, thus, it will request an additional P6.789 billion to fully finance its interventions. See “ASF,” A2

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Based on its presentation, the DA said it aims to produce 440,563 breeders in the next three years, which is more than enough to compensate for the estimated 332,928 breeders lost as of January 1. The DA added that by 2023 about 10.5 million finishers would be already produced, which would be equivalent to 738,805 metric tons (MT) of pork. Also by 2023, about 90 percent or 2,100 of ASF-affected barangays will be released from quarantine through the use of the sentinel approach, according to the DA. The DA has pegged the pork production shortfall this year at 388,790 MT as the country lost at least 3.08 million pigs as of January 1 based on latest PSA data. The DA said its interventions would result in the additional pork output of 84,000 MT for 2021, 238,192 MT by 2022 and 474,012 MT by 2023. Furthermore, the DA said the interventions would lead to further pork output for the years 2024 and 2025 with additional production volume of 809,172 MT and 1.144 MMT, respectively. “Based on our projections it will take a minimum of three years to fully recover if all safeguards and investments and budgets are properly and timely implemented,” Agriculture Undersecretary for Livestock William Medrano said. “By the fifth year, we will have more than enough supply to satisfy the demand and reduce or stop the reliance from imports. This will only be made possible if the budgetary requirements will be made available,” Medrano added. Based on the DA’s presentation, the three-year intervention would benefit at least 115,800 farmers resulting in a production value worth P157.5 billion. The DA said its interventions would be complemented with the P27.5-billion loan facility by the Agricultural Credit Policy Council, Land Bank of the Philippines and Development Bank of the Philippines, that would be available to hog raisers.

ERC refund order pulls down Meralco rates to four-year low

By Lenie Lectura

LECTRICITY rates for this month will go down by P0.3598 per kilowatt hour (kWh) to P8.3195 per kWh, the lowest since August 2017.

The Manila Electric Company (Meralco) said on Tuesday the downward adjustment is equivalent to a decrease of around P72 in the total bill of residential customers consuming 200 kWh. Last month’s power rates stood at P8.6793 per kWh. The rate reduction was brought about by a refund order of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC), which provisionally approved Meralco’s proposal to refund around P13.9 billion over a period of 24 months or until the amount is fully refunded. This amount represents the difference between the Actual Weighted Average Tariff and the ERC-approved Interim Average Rate for distribution-related charges for the period July 2015 to November 2020. For residential customers, the refund rate is P0.2761 per kWh and will appear in customer bills as a

line item called “Dist True-Up”. This month’s rate also still includes the ERC-approved adjustments for pass-through over/ under-recoveries for the period January 2017 to December 2019. The ERC ordered Meralco last December 29, 2020, to refund overrecoveries in transmission and other charges over a period of approximately three months and to collect an under-recovery in the generation rate for approximately 24 months. Meralco implemented the ERC-approved adjustments starting January 2021. The impact on residential customers, from the months of January to March 2021, is a net refund of around P0.1150 per kWh. The March power rate also reflects a lower generation charge of P4.3749 per kWh, P0.0403 lower than February’s P4.4152 per kWh. The reduction was due to the

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“As a net oil importer, the Philippines will definitely have to deal with higher prices (and Consumer Price Index) if this oil price rally will be sustained in the medium term. If prices of manufacturing inputs also rise, we will definitely see capacity utilization rate challenges,” he explained. Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF) President Calixto V. Chikiamco told this newspaper that, unfortunately, the government cannot do much to mitigate the impact of high oil prices. Chikiamco said higher oil prices will affect commodity prices leading to more expensive food items. “The market can’t absorb price increases due to the increase in oil input prices.” Ateneo Center for Economic Research and Development (Acerd) Director Alvin P. Ang told the BusinessMirror the manufacturing sector’s performance is also significantly affected by the slow recovery in the country’s trade partners. “It is a function also of the improvement of our international value chains. It may imply that international orders are still not back at their preCovid levels,” Ang said. “Our recovery is really slow because 40 percent of our economy is dependent on international trade, so our recovery is also dependent on our neighbors,” he added.

Hope in 2nd quarter

HOWEVER, Ang said, the manufacturing sector may see some improvement particularly in the second quarter when the economies of the country’s trading partners are expected to do better. For some economists such as former University of the Philippines School of Economics (UPSE) Dean Ramon L. Clarete, the increase in oil prices may not necessarily be bad for the global economy.

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The increase in oil prices, Clarete said, could already be a sign that the global economy is recovering. This bodes well for countries like the Philippines that also depend on trade partners to boost growth. Nonetheless, Clarete said the country’s average capacity utilization rate of 46.1 percent in January is already cause for concern. “The increase brings both good and bad news. Economic activity is picking up in the world, so we could expand our manufactured exports. Bad because we may not be ready for that because of the continuing pandemic. Industrial policy [is needed] to stimulate faster manufacturing exports,” Clarete said. University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) School of Economics Dean Cid Terosa told this newspaper that more expensive oil products would also lead to higher inflation and weaken Filipinos’ purchasing power. Terosa said this could also lead to higher interest rates with lower real money supply due to inflationary pressures. It could also lead to a wider trade deficit and weaker peso, he added. While a weaker peso could boost consumption spending, it may not bode well for the manufacturing sector. The industry largely depends on imports to produce goods. In January, the PSA reported that the low average capacity utilization rate was due to seven of the 22 industry divisions having at least 50 percent average capacity utilization rate. These included the manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations (67.5 percent); manufacture of wood, bamboo, cane, rattan articles, and related products (56.6 percent); and printing and reproduction of recorded media (56.1 percent). The PSA said the list included the manufacture of paper and paper products (55 percent); manufacture

of computer, electronic and optical products (52 percent); manufacture of rubber and plastic products (51.6 percent); and manufacture of furniture (50 percent). “The proportion of establishments that operated at full capacity (90 percent to 100 percent) was 20.9 percent of the total number of responding establishments. Meanwhile, 40.5 percent operated at 70 to 89 percent capacity, while more than onethird (38.6 percent) operated below 70 percent capacity,” PSA said. The data also showed that the Volume of Production Index (VoPI) contracted 16.7 percent in January 2021. This decline was faster than the 12-percent decrease posted in December but lower than the 1.9-percent growth in January 2020. “The faster downturn in VoPI was brought about by the annual decreases of 18 industry divisions led by manufacture of wood, bamboo, cane, rattan articles and related products (-53.4 percent), manufacture of machinery and equipment except electrical (-48.9 percent), and manufacture of tobacco (-42.6 percent),” the PSA said. The PSA data also showed the Value of Production Index (VaPI) contracted 21.1 percent in January 2021. This was a deeper decline from the 15.4 percent contraction in December and decrease of 1.7 percent in January 2020. The PSA said the faster decline of VaPI for the manufacturing sector in January 2021 were the reductions in the indices of 18 out of the 22 industry divisions. The industry divisions that led the contraction of VaPI were manufacture of wood, bamboo, cane, rattan articles and related products (-53.5 percent), manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products (-53.1 percent), and manufacture of machinery and equipment except electrical (-51 percent).

higher share of supply from the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM), which registered the lowest charge among suppliers. Despite an increase in Luzon peak demand from 9,162 MW to 9,574 MW, charges from the WESM remained relatively stable at P2.4609 per kWh. WESM share was up from 7.1 percent last month to 11.7 percent this month. The low WESM charges offset increases in costs from Power Supply Agreements (PSA) and Independent Power Producers (IPPs) of P0.0175 per kWh and P0.1338 per kWh, respectively. The higher PSA and IPP charges were the result of the peso’s depreciation and lower average plant dispatch. The shares of PSAs and IPPs went down this month to 52.5 percent and 35.8 percent, respectively, from 53.4 percent and 39.5 percent, respectively, last month. Meanwhile, transmission charges for residential customers inched up by P0.0022 per kWh, while taxes and other charges registered a net decrease of P0.0456 per kWh. The collection of the Universal Charge-Environmental Charge amounting to P0.0025 per kWh remains suspended, as directed by the ERC.

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MERALCO’S distribution, supply, and metering charges, meanwhile, have remained unchanged for 68 months, after these registered reductions in July 2015. The utility firm does not earn from the pass-through charges, such as the generation and transmission charges. Payment for the generation charge goes to the power suppliers, while payment for the transmission charge goes to the NGCP. Taxes and other public policy charges like the Universal Charges and the FIT-All are remitted to the government. Meralco reminded its seven million customers to continue practicing energy efficiency initiatives at home and to be ready in managing their consumption. The summer season normally results in an increase in residential electricity consumption by 10 percent to 40 percent versus average consumption during the cool months of January and February. As temperature increases, appliances that have compressors, like air conditioners or refrigerators, will have to work harder. Electric fans are also used longer than usual, and often at “high” setting to beat the summer heat.

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By country source, cash remittances from Saudi Arabia, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Germany and Kuwait declined, while those from the United States, Singapore, Canada, Hong Kong, Qatar, South Korea and Taiwan increased. The US posted the highest share of the total remittances at 39.9 percent, followed by Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Japan, the UK, the UAE, Canada, Hong Kong, Qatar and South Korea. The combined remittances from these countries accounted for 78.6 percent of the total cash remittances during the year. FMIC said the expected recovery of remittances for this year will likely be driven by the recovery of Middle Eastern economies, most of which are havens for Filipino migrant workers. “The nascent economic recovery in the advanced economies and the Middle East [due to higher oil prices] will provide the boost,” economists said. While remittances are expected to bounce back this year, FMIC and UA&P analysts said this does not assure a recovery for the Philippine economy this year. “OFW remittances held on to its upward streak, but headwinds remain. Foremost would be the acceleration of headline inflation to 4.2 percent year-on-year in January 2021 from 3.7 percent a month earlier which promises to persist due to supply-chain disruptions and higher input prices,” economists said. “Exports will likely take a tad faster pace, while OFW remittances’ growth should remain positive. The exchange rate will tend to flatten in the first quarter with a slight upward bias as the quarter ends,” it added.

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out of the labor force in January 2021 compared to January 2020. “The faster rate from October 2020 to January 2021 means catch-up. The latter part of the year is also Christmas season (think of work in gift-giving industry, etc.),” Ofreneo said. “The severe loss of jobs for women during the harsh lockdowns from March to the third quarter of 2020 naturally affected women in the large services sector,” he added.

Questionable data

HOWEVER, Ofreneo said the latest employment data is also not encouraging. Given that the unemployment rate for January 2021 is 8.7 percent, around 4 million still did not have jobs. Ofreneo said with the figure of those not in the labor force increasing by 1.6 million and the “natural labor force increase” year on year, the country’s true unemployment rate could reach at least 10 percent. The Nagkaisa labor coalition estimated that this true unemployment rate was at 10.3 percent, which means that some 4.5 million workers were rendered jobless in 2020, the highest in 15 years. The country’s biggest labor coalition renewed its call for the government to make public employment a recovery strategy in the face of a lingering job crisis. Nagkaisa labor coalition said it is only through employment that household income and the economy can be sustained in the short and longer term as the rollout of Covid-19 vaccine and reviving the private-led economy is taking longer than expected. Under its proposed Unemployment Support and Wage Assistance Guarantee (USWAG) agenda that it has already submitted before the labor department and the National Tripartite Industrial Council (NTIPC), Nagkaisa called for public employment programs (PEPs) on mounting social tasks in the health sector, the environment, food security, and the social housing sector, among others. “With the snail-paced rollout of vaccination and the threat of Covid-19 surges which continues to dampen the market, expecting the private sector to solely address the jobs crisis is not an

option. It is time for the government to be the biggest employer on social tasks that need to be done and levelled up, with or without the pandemic,” said Nagkaisa chairman Sonny Matula. Defend Jobs Philippines also questioned the recently released LFS data by the PSA, insisting that the true unemployment rate of the country was at 10.3 percent. The labor group cited various independent survey firms which revealed “comparably far” data on unemployment in contrast with the PSA. Defend Jobs Philippines Spokesperson Christian Lloyd Magsoy said that a Social Weather Stations Inc. (SWS) survey revealed a 45.5-percent unemployment figure, which is equivalent to 27.3 million unemployed Filipinos due to the pandemic. According to SWS, the jump in adult joblessness in July 2020 was a 28-point increase from the 17.5 percent in December 2019 and a record-high increase since 34.4 percent in March 2012. “While we are one with the PSA’s analysis that last year’s joblessness figures marked the highest recorded annual unemployment rate in history since 2005, we express uncertainty over the concrete and actual figures of this labor force survey,” Magsoy said.

Signs of growth

IN terms of overall employment, the President’s economic team said in a joint statement that the unemployment rate averaging 8.7 percent in January is a sign that the economy is slowly recovering. The economic team noted that between October 2020 and January 2021, a total of 1.4 million jobs were created. This increased the proportion of the working-age population to 60.5 percent in January 2021 from 58.7 percent in October 2020. They added that the biggest improvement was observed in the National Capital Region (NCR) or Metro Manila, where 269,000 jobs were created between October 2020 and January 2021. Outside NCR, the picture was not as rosy. The economic team said unemployment increased to 8.7 percent and underemployment increased to 17.1 percent in the same period. The President’s economic

team traced this to weather disturbances and flooding, the African Swine Fever that badly affected livestock production, and mobility restrictions. “While the data show that across sectors, we are gradually getting back the jobs we lost due to the pandemic, the smaller progress in the past quarter suggests that we still need to address the remaining restrictions before the economy can get closer to normal,” the economic team said. To accelerate economic growth and job creation this year, the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda), citing the economic managers, said a threepronged strategy is needed. The first is to safely reopen the economy while maintaining health protocols; implement the recovery package; and ensure the timely implementation of the vaccine program to cover the entire adult population. The economic managers emphasized that full and fast implementation of the recovery package would underpin economic growth this year and onwards. The higher stimulus through the Bayanihan II, the 2020 budget extension, the 2021 budget, as well as the swift enactment or implementation of key legislations, such as the Financial Institutions Strategic Transfer (FIST) Act, the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) Act, and the Government Financial Institutions Unified Initiative to Distressed Enterprises for Economic Recovery (GUIDE) Act, are all crucial. With the employment numbers and the call of the economic team, Labor and Employment Secretary Silvestre Bello III said the country has a better chance of seeing improvements in the labor situation in the country. “Improvement in the employment situation shows that businesses and workers are starting to regain confidence with the safe reopening of the economy,” Bello said. “We expect a better and more improved employment performance in the coming months with the vaccine being made available and more Filipinos under the priority categories getting inoculated,” he added.

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NDRRMC alerts LGUs amid Taal’s restiveness

HE National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) on Tuesday reminded all local government units (LGUs) and residents near the Taal Volcano Island (TVI) to take necessary precautions due to the volcano’s increased unrest. “The NDRRMC is constantly monitoring the situation of Taal, and our regional DRRMC for Calabarzon [Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon] has already reminded all LGUs around the volcano island to ensure readiness for any possibility,” said NDRRMC deputy spokesman Mark Cashean Timbal, in a message to reporters. Preparations include the activation of evacuation sites and relief support. “[These include] preparations for evacuation activities, evacuation centers, relief support, etc., [aside from] integrating Covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] protection protocols,” Timbal said. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has raised the alert level for Taal Volcano from Alert Level 1, or low level of unrest, to Alert Level 2, or increasing unrest on Tuesday morning. In its Volcano Bulletin Issued at 8 a.m. on November 9, 2021, Phivolcs said since February 13, 2021, Taal Volcano has been exhibiting increased unrest based on a number of monitoring parameters, namely, volcanic earthquakes, changes in the main crater lake, ground deformation and microgravity changes. According to Phivolcs, the Taal Volcano Network (TVN) recorded a total of 28 volcanic tremor episodes,

4 low frequency volcanic earthquakes (LFVQs), and 1 hybrid earthquake at shallow depths of less than 1.5 kilometers beneath TVI in the past 24 hours. Compared to previously recorded episodes, volcanic tremors have increased seismic energy and ranged between three to 17 minutes in duration. Phivolcs had also recorded a continuing increase in acidity from January to mid-February. “Increasing acidity is caused by sustained volcanic gas input into the shallow hydrothermal system that feeds into the lake, signifying degassing of magma intruded at depth during the January 2020 eruption,” it said. Phivolcs also noticed there is an ongoing slight deformation of TVI centered on a pressure source on its southeast sector. Last, Phivolcs said campaign surveys have measured positive microgravity changes across Taal Caldera after the 2020 eruption consistent with density changes caused by magma migration, magma degassing and hydrothermal activity. In raising the alert level status of Taal Volcano, Phivolcs said “this means there is probable magmatic activity that may or may not lead to an eruption.” It also said that under Alert Level 2, evacuation is not yet recommended. “However, the public is reminded that Taal Volcano Island is a Permanent Danger Zone [PDZ] and that entry into the TVI, especially the vicinities of the main crater and Daang Kastila fissure must remain strictly prohibited,” it added. PNA with Jonathan L. Mayuga

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DOJ chief directs NBI to probe Samar ‘gunfight’ that left mayor, 5 others dead

By Joel R. San Juan @jrsanjuan1573 & Rene Acosta @reneacostaBM

USTICE Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Tuesday directed the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to conduct an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Calbayog City Mayor Ronald Aquino and five others in Samar last Monday.

Guevarra said the NBI should take over the investigation on the incident since members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) were among the parties involved in the deadly shootout. Aquino was on his way to attend his son’s birthday party in Samar last Monday when the incident occurred. Aquino, who was on board a white van with his aides, were traveling north along the Laboyao Bridge in Lonoy village when they were allegedly fired upon. This allegedly prompted one of Aquino’s security personnel to fire shots at the van that they allegedly thought were tailing them. It turned out the occupants of the other vehicles were PNP personnel

from the Integrity, Monitoring and Enforcement Group (IMEG) and the Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU). Dead on the spot were Mayor Aquino, S/Sgt. Rodeo Balonzo, S/Sgt. Romeo Laoyon, and Dennis Abayon, the mayor’s driver. Wounded were S/Sgt. Neil Cebu; Mansfield Labonite, the mayor’s aide; and Clint John Paul Yauder, a local government employee. Laoyon was onboard in one of the vehicles reportedly tailing the mayor’s car while Balonzo, Cebu, and Labonite were in the same car with Aquino. Yauder, whose car was just passing by but got caught in the shooting, later died while under treatment at St. Camillus Hospital in Calbayog.

Rentuaya said the body of Capt. Joselito Tabada, chief of Samar PNPDEU and acting chief of police of nearby Gandara town, was recovered under the bridge on the same night. Tabada was onboard a van said to be tailing the mayor’s car. His death was not included in the spot report due to the late discovery of his body. “We would refer the matter to the NBI for the simple reason that the other party involved is from the PNP [Philippine National Police]. The information that we have gathered so far is that the [group of Mayor Aquino] had an encounter with alleged police officers,” said Guevarra. “So since there are different versions, in order to have an objective and impartial investigation, I will direct the NBI today to investigate the incident,” Guevarra said.

Who fired the first shot?

AT Camp Crame, meanwhile, the PNP maintained that the first gunshot that triggered the gunfight between the convoy of Aquino and a team of policemen came from the group of the late mayor. A news statement released by the PNP, through its spokesman, Brig. Gen. Ildebrandi Usana, said the gun battle allegedly transpired after the group of Aquino fired at the convoy of the joint IMEG and PDEA team. “There was an exchange of gun-

fire between the two groups that resulted to casualties on both sides…,” Usana said. Usana said that while the details of the incident remain sketchy, investigation reports have so far established that the shot, which triggered the gun battle came from the convoy of Aquino. “The group of Mayor Aquino was alleged to have initiated the shootout when his close-in security fired at the unmarked vehicle of the IMEGPDEU group that was travelling in the same direction along the road,” Usana said. “The IMEG-PDEU group denies that Mayor Aquino was a subject of their operations or that he was targeted. The SITG [Special Investigation Task Group] shall confirm the veracity of this statement,” he added. Usana said the joint IMEG-PDEU team was conducting “Red Teaming inspection on the operational readiness of PNP units in the area” when the firefight happened. “The PNP personnel involved also claimed they were initially unaware of the passengers on board the vehicle that fired upon them. It was only after the firefight that the said vehicle was identified to be owned by Mayor Aquino. The same remains to be validated,” the PNP spokesman also said. With PNA report

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IFPB okays rules on Bangsamoro grants, donations By Bernadette D. Nicolas @BNicolasBM

HE Intergovernmental Fiscal Policy Board (IFPB) has approved the guidelines on the acceptance of foreign grants and donations by the Bangsamoro government. Co-chaired by Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III and Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Chief Minister Ahod Ebrahim, the IFPB greenlighted the set of guidelines during its second meeting on February 5. Finance Undersecretary Bayani Agabin said the guidelines issued by the IFPB are similar to the protocols provided under the law that other government agencies have to follow when receiving grants or donations.

“The IFPB’s goal in issuing the guidelines was to streamline the process for the Bangsamoro government in receiving grants and make it more efficient,” Agabin said in a news statement sent through the Department of Finance (DOF). Under Republic Act 11054, or the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), the IFPB is tasked to deal with revenue imbalances and fluctuations in regional financial needs and revenue-raising capacity of the Bangsamoro government. Dominguez and BARMM Public Works Minister Eduard Guerra, who was Minister Ebrahim’s representative, also agreed during the February 5 meeting that the Bangsamoro government should inform DOF when initiating talks with potential foreign donors so

that processing of grants can be done simultaneously with the national government. Under the approved guidelines, Bangsamoro government shall coordinate closely w ith DOF before the negotiation and signing of foreign grants “to facilitate issuances of request for Office of the President Approval or Special Authority.” The guidelines on foreign grants to the BARMM shall take effect 15 days following the filing of its three copies with the Office of the National Administrative Register of the University of the Philippines Law Center. Under BOL, the BARMM shall enjoy fiscal autonomy and have the power to create its sources of revenues as provided under this law. The BOL also provides

that the Bangsamoro government shall exercise authority over grants and loans, without prejudice to the general supervision of the President of the Philippines, and that its acceptance of foreign grants shall be subject to the prior clearance and approval by the President or his authorized representative. In the same meeting, the IFPB also discussed the ongoing work being done by the BARMM Tax Study Group (TSG) and the establishment of the Shari’ah Supervisory Board in the BARMM, along with the creation of a regional office of the DOF-attached Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF) in the autonomous region. Doming uez told Guer ra to start digitalizing the tax processes of the BARMM to ensure

ef f ic ient re venue - generat i ng operations and funding for its priority projects. “If there’s any more help you need from us on taxation, please let us know because this is so important. Without good taxation and a good collection agency, you cannot get anything done. Nice engine, but no gasoline,” Dominguez told Guerra. The finance chief also ordered Finance Assistant Secretary Dakila Napao to track the timeline of the studies being done by the TSG and to align this task with the timeline of the parliamentary approval of the BARMM Revenue Code. BARMM Deputy Minister Ubaida Pacasem, who is also the Minister of Finance and Budget and Management, informed the IFPB that the

Bangsamoro government expects the proposed Revenue Code to be presented to its Cabinet in May and to the Parliament by the third quarter of this year. Represent at ives f rom t he Bangsamoro government and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas held their first meeting last January 26 to discuss the framework for the Shari’ah Supervisory Board. The BOL provides for the establishment of the Shari’ah Supervisory Board and the promotion and development of Shari’ah compliant financial institutions in the BARMM. As for the establishment of the BLGF regional office in the BARMM, Agabin said the creation of 18 staff positions for this office was already approved by the Department of Budget and Management.

Senate approves BFP modernization bill By Butch Fernandez

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HE Senate passed by unanimous vote the proposed Bureau of Fire Protection Modernization Bill providing modern firefighting tools and life-saving equipment, as well as additional firemen mandated to undergo relevant training. Embodied in Senate Bill 1832, the enabling legislation sponsored by Sen. Ronald dela Rosa breezed through with 23 affirmative votes, no negative votes and no abstention. To be known as BFP Modernization Act once enacted into law, it is aimed at helping the bureau pursue its mandate of promoting public safety by saving lives and protecting property in times of emergencies. Dela Rosa, in sponsoring the measure, said the enabling legislation is intended to “ensure that the BFP will be “well-quipped and sufficiently manned to suppress fire and respond to calamities.” The senator assured that “we will not allow the BFP to prevent and suppress destructive fires alone.” “With the help of Senate Bill 1832, we can ensure there will be enough fire officers, fire trucks, personal protective equipment and other equipment needed to promptly put out deadly fire incidents,” he said. Apart from that, the senator added that BFP personnel can better perform their task as “ first responders” in case of accidents and other emergency incidents.

With the help of Senate Bill 1832, we can ensure there will be enough fire officers, fire trucks, personal protective equipment and other equipment needed to promptly put out deadly fire incidents. Sen. Ronald dela Rosa

Moreover, Dela Rosa pointed out that Senate Bill 1832 expands the BFP’s functions to include prevention and suppression of fire in all buildings, houses and other structures located inside economic zones, agro-industrial economic zones, free ports, and special economic zones, IT parks/ centers, tourism economic zones, and other similar entities. In addition, the bureau’s functions include responding to “natural and man-made disasters and assist in rescue and emergency medical services” provided that the BFP would coordinate and cooperate with the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) and local government units (LGUs). As passed, the BFP Modernization Bill also provides for a modernization program consisting components, such as “fire protection service, force

restructuring and organizational development, capability, material, and technology development, specialized services development, and human resource development.” Dela Rosa added: “With the help of Congress we can fulfill a dream for all localities to have their own fire station and fire truck and provide all firefighters with protective equipment while putting out deadly fire incidents.” “Again, with the help of Congress, our dream to have fire trucks and fire stations in every municipality could be achieved; hopefully, we can see firefighters with protective equipment while suppressing deadly fires; no more stories of fatalities due to lack of ambulances during accidents and emergencies,” the senator said, even as he assured the public that the Senate will ensure proper funding for the modernization of the BFP.

House finalizes measure to discard old LPG cylinders, but group calls for ‘further study’ By Jovee Marie N. Dela Cruz @joveemarie

HE House Committee on Energy is now finalizing the LPG Cylinder Replacement and Recovery Program, which would replace around 6 million LPG cylinders being used in Philippine households. However, in a letter to House Committee on Energy Chairman Juan Miguel Arroyo, the LPG Refillers Association (LPGRA) appealed to the committee to “further study” the impact of the program to poor households. Engr. Bernardo Bolisay, chairman and president of LPGRA, said the proposed LPG Cylinder Replacement and Recovery Program needs millions of pesos in gov-

ernment subsidy, which would replace around 6 million LPG cylinders, adding nothing has been mentioned about subsidy in the consolidated measures under House Bills 302, 5642 and 7251, which are all pending in the committee. Under the proposals, Bolisay said substandard LPG cylinders would have to be replaced in three years. “That is not possible,” Bolisay said. He noted that a similar program took three years to replace 1.2 million cylinders in Thailand. “In Thailand, the government subsidizes such a program so consumers don’t have to suffer,” he said. Without a subsidy some 6 million poor families would have to shoulder the expense of a brand-new cylinder, which

costs around P1,500. The group, meanwhile, proposed a longer transition period for the program, which, he said, may take six years and three months under the present circumstances. He said the two cylinder manufacturers can only produce 40,000 cylinders each per month for a total of 80,000 cylinders per month. “At that rate, replacing 6 million cylinders would entail six years and three months,” he said. “The recovery and replacement of these six million substandard LPG cylinders undoubtedly need the active cooperation of our poorest and poor Filipino families by surrendering their substandard LPG cylinders in order to be replaced by new standard LPG cylinders,” Bolisay said.

DFA launches system for quick documents process continued from a10 Once the document is issued an Apostille certificate, the applicant may submit the document directly to the concerned party, phasing out the “red ribbon” certificate. “Authentication services are crucial for the Filipino public, particularly our overseas Filipino workers [OFWs] and students abroad. It is for them that we continue to think of ways to do things better and make their lives a bit easier,” said Secretary Locsin. The newly launched system will allow applicants who wish to submit their documents for authentication at DFA Aseana

to register for an appointment at http:// dfa.gov.ph/apostille-appointment, beginning Monday. By April 2021, applicants may also register online for authentication appointments at select Consular Offices nationwide. Undersecretary Dulay said that “today’s launch of this online appointment system for authentication services is a concrete, tangible and self-evident example of how we operationalize this commitment [to an effective, efficient and timely delivery of consular services that are responsive to the needs of Filipinos here and abroad].”

The step-by-step process of using the newly launched online Apostille Appointment and Verification System may be viewed here: https://bit.ly/2POySaT. Those who wish to know more about the Authentication through Apostille may check https://tinyurl.com/DFAApostilleAuthentication. For DFA’s Authentication services and which Consular Offices offer the service, visit the consular web site at https://consular. dfa.gov.ph/services/authentication/authentication-general-info.

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Senate okays measure dividing Maguindanao into 2 provinces

HE Senate on Tuesday passed on third and final reading the bill which seeks to create the provinces of Maguindanao del Norte and Maguindanao del Sur in Mindanao. House Bill 6413, sponsored by the chairman of the Committee on Local Government Sen. Francis “Tol” Tolentino, seeks to divide the present Maguindanao province to pave the way for the creation of two provinces. Tolentino said the measure seeks to accelerate the political, social and economic development of the new provinces and ensure that government services are more accessible and more responsive to theneedsoftheirrespectiveconstituents. On a broader perspective, the creation of more public offices as a consequence of the division will further expand the democratic space for qualified and dedicated public servants to participate in the governance of the provinces. Once enacted into law, Maguindanao del Norte will be composed of the following towns: Barira, Buldon, Datu Blah Sinsuat, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Kabuntalan, Matanog, Northern Kabuntalan, Parang, North Upi, Sultan Kudarat, Sultan Mastura, and Talitay. Maguindanao del Sur will consist of Ampatuan, Buluan, Datu Abdulla Sangki, Datu Anggal Midtimbang, Datu Hoffer Ampatuan, Datu Montawal, Datu Paglas, Datu Piang, Datu Salibo, Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Datu Unsay, Gen. Salipada K. Pendatun, Guindulungan, Mamasapano, Mangudadatu, Pagalungan, Paglat, Pandag, Rajah Buayan, Sharif Aguak, Sharif Saydona Mustafa, Sultan sa Barongis, Talayan and South Upi. Under the bill, the capital towns and seats of government of the two new provinces will be Datu Odin Sinsuat for Maguindanao del Norte and

Buluan for Maguindanao del Sur. Tolentino noted that Maguindanao has a population of 1,173,933 based on the 2015 official population count of the Philippine Statistics Authority and an estimated average annual regular income is P714.56 million as certified by the Bureau of Local Government Finance. Moreover, Tolentino pointed out that the two new provinces, likewise, comply with the minimum land area requirement of 2,000 kilometers (200,000 hectares) as certified by the Land Management Bureau. According to Tolentino, Maguindanao is blessed with rich and abundant natural resources. Despite the existence of this vast potential, political and economic barriers persist. The size of the province remains to be a challenge for the provincial government to provide basic services like public health care, education, and transportation to the most remote villages. In his co-sponsorship speech, Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. said the legislative measure is “an embodiment of the aspiration of our brothers and sisters in Maguindanao to create a new province.” For his part, Sen. Joel Villanueva said that through this legislation he is co-sponsoring, he is one with the leaders of Maguindanao in accelerating their economic progress while ensuring lasting peace and stability for their fast-growing population, which is projected to reach 1.4 million in 2023. Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III, Majority Leader Juan Miguel “Migz” F. Zubiri—who moved for an omnibus amendment for Northern Maguindanao and Southern Maguindanao be renamed to Maguindanao del Norte and Maguindanao del Sur, respectively—and Sen. Sherwin T. Gatchalian are also co-sponsors of the bill. Butch Fernandez

PHL, Novavax to sign supply deal for 30-M Covid jabs today–Palace

By Bernadette D. Nicolas

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HE Philippines is expected to sign today (Wednesday, March 10, 2021) the supply agreement for the procurement of 30 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine developed by American vaccine maker Novavax manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII).

Presidential spokesman Harry Roque announced this in an online Palace briefing on Tuesday. “Pipirma na rin bukas, ika-10 ng Marso with Novavax, 30 milyon po ’yan,” Roque said. Vaccine czar Carlito G. Galvez is currently in India for the expected signing of the supply deal for Novavax Covid-19 vaccine doses. Galvez will be in India until March 12. The supply agreement is the final phase of the government’s vaccine procurement process. The government earlier said Novavax vaccines from SII, are expected to start arriving in the country by May this year. Aside from Novavax vaccines, Roque also said the government has also signed the supply agreement for 13 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines from American pharmaceutical firm

Moderna, as well as the “purchase order” for 1 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine CoronaVac from Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac. Roque said the signed supply agreement for 13 million doses of vaccines from Moderna is separate from the 7 million doses also eyed to be procured by the private sector also from the same firm. As for the procurement of 1 million doses of Sinovac vaccines, this will also be on top of the 600,000 doses donated by China to the Philippine government on February 28. The Department of Health (DOH) earlier announced it is eyeing to use its savings for the procurement of additional Sinovac vaccines. Meanwhile, Roque said the country’s supply deal with American pharmaceutical firm Johnson & Johnson is still “in progress.”

Lawyers urge SC to mandate use of body cams in serving of warrants By Joel R. San Juan @jrsanjuan1573

EVERAL lawyers appealed to the Supreme Court on Tuesday to impose a “no body camera, no service of search warrant” rule for law enforcers to address the issue of extrajudicial killings (EJKs) during police operations. The call was made following the death of nine activists and the arrest of several others in simultaneous police and military operations conducted in the provinces of Cavite, Laguna, Batangas and Rizal (Calabarzon) last Sunday, as well as, several other alleged EJK incidents allegedly perpetrated by law enforcers. At a news conference, lawyer Evalyn Ursua, one of the legal counsels and petitioners before the SC seeking the scrapping of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, said compelling law enforcers to wear body cameras during service of search or arrest warrants to ensure proper police protocols are observed. She added this would also prevent speculations of summary killings or EJKs against law enforcers in case a shootout ensues during service of warrants. The police maintained that the nine activists were killed after they fired at the raiding team which was supposed to implement search warrants for explosives and several firearms allegedly from target individuals. “If the Supreme Court would require that all those who would serve the search warrants would have body cameras, the police

officers, the law enforcers, we would avoid those inaccurate stories. We would not just rely on the testimony of the law enforcers, there should be evidence,” Ursua said. Requiring police officers to wear body cams, according to Ursua, would also prevent parties from issuing false accusations or accounts of what transpired during the implementation of the warrants. She said if law enforcers would fail to comply with the policy during its operations once it is approved by the SC, there would be an automatic assumption of irregularity. Meanwhile, another lawyer-petitioner in the ATA case and chairman of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) Neri Colmenares, suggested that if the service of a warrant would result in a fatality, the SC should get the records of the case from the judge for review. He added law enforcement officers should be required to submit a report on the facts that led to the death of a person aside from submitting a list of items found or confiscated from the subject of the search warrant. The issue on EJKs of activists, according to Colmenares, should be actively discussed or asked during the Judicial and Bar Council’s (JBC) scheduled interview of candidates for SC Chief Justice post. The issue on the killing of judges and lawyers handling sensitive cases was also brought up during the news conference. Ursua noted that the number of lawyers and

judges killed has reached 54 under the Duterte administration but one of them has been solved. Ursua said this should be enough to serve as a “tipping point” for all those in the legal profession to go on strike. “I agree that this should be the tipping point. Actually, we have already said before, it was proposed that we need to go on strike because if we are already being killed, what are we expecting even if we put our lives on the line for our work,” she said. “So yes we shall all actually go on strike and I am willing to do that if all the lawyers all over the country would say that we should go on strike,” Ursua added. Howard Calleja, who is also one of the lawyers of petitioners in the ATA, said that when lawyers are under attack, the Filipinos are also under attack. The lawyers said they are willing to sit down with the SC to discuss all their proposals on how to prevent EJKs during service of search warrants and on other related issues. Lawyer Angelo Karlo Guillen was the latest victim of an attack against those in the legal profession. Guillen, was stabbed in the head Wednesday evening. An initial report from the police said it was a robbery. Guillen is the NUPL assistant vice president for Visayas and a fellow legal counsel for the ATA representing the petitioners in the 11th petition filed by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan).

Meanwhile, petitioners against the ATA and their lawyers reiterated their plea to the SC to issue a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the controversial in light of the attack against Guillen, one of their co-counsels in the case. In a five-page joint manifestation and further reiterative motion for issuance of injunctive relief, the petitioners and their counsels asked the SC to issue a status quo ante order and/or a TRO pending the resolution of the consolidated petitions against the ATA. “It is with much outrage and alarm that petitioners and their respective counsels respectfully bring to the attention of this Honorable Court the brazen and premeditated attacks on Atty. Angelo Karlo Guillen,” they said. They explained that the attack on Guillen is a grim reminder of the conditions of the social environment that they are litigating against the ATA. “It is one where activists and human-rights defenders not only pray that they do not fall prey in the first place to such relentless incitements to violence and assaults. It is one where every inch of democratic space must be defended to the teeth lest the lofty tenets of the Constitution be mangled into mere hortatory aspirations that shall fail at every turn to keep brutes and assassins, under the badge of authority, at bay,” they added. On the other hand, Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Menardo Guevarra expects to receive the inventory on the killings of lawyers soon.

Incentives eyed for firms aiding lawmen to track down online sexual abuse cases By Butch Fernandez @butchfBM

ONGRESS was asked to frontload legislation granting incentives to private companies aiding law enforcers tracking online sexual abuse cases and exploitation of minors. Sen. Risa Hontiveros stressed the need for early enactment of remedial legislation to assist law enforcers “in clamping down on online sexual abuse and exploitation of children [OSAEC].” “We need companies to be proactive in the fight against OSAEC,” the senator said. “Providing incentives may be the most effective way to ensure this,” Hontiveros added, asserting the need to be sure commensurate penalties are

We need companies to be proactive in the fight against OSAEC. Sen. Risa Hontiveros

applied to those who violate the law. In a parallel effort, Hontiveros earlier filed Senate Bill 2068, to be known as the Anti-Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation law, imposing penalties on

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private companies that fail to comply with their obligations under the bill. She noted “both incentives and penalties can encourage more synergy between private companies and

government agencies. Moreover, Hontiveros reminded that under Senate Bill 2068, “Internet service providers [ISP] that do not give notice of exploitation on their services will suffer a penalty of P2 million but not more than P5 million.” In addition, she noted that the bill also provides that social-media networks that are not compliant with the requirements will suffer a penalty of P10 million, while banks, money services, and other financial intermediaries not fulfilling their reportorial obligation shall suffer the penalty as provided under the law. According to Hontiveros, “the private sectors’ products are the main channels through which exploitation occurs.

Sought how much will the government spent for the procurement of these Covid-19 vaccines, Roque said they are expecting to spend P700 million for the additional 1 million doses of Sinovac’s vaccine and $5 each for 70 percent of 17 million doses of vaccines from British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. Out of the 17 million doses from AstraZeneca that the Philippines expects to receive through the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (Covax) facility, the government has so far received P525,000 doses. The Philippines is eyeing to inoculate 50 million to 70 million people to cover the country’s adult population. The country’s vaccination program is expected to cost around P82.5 billion. To raise the bulk of the amount, Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III earlier said it is targeting about $1.3 billion (roughly P63 billion) in loan financing from multilateral lenders, which includes the Philippines’s contribution of $84 million to the Covax facility. As for the remaining P12.5 billion, P10 billion will be sourced from funds allocated for the Covid-19 vaccination program under Republic Act (RA) 11494 or the Bayanihan To Recover As One Act (Bayanihan 2), while P2.5 billion already forms part of the budget of the Department of Health under the 2021 national budget. World Health Organization (WHO) Philippine representative Dr. Rabindra Abeyasinghe, meanwhile,

disclosed on Tuesday that at least 117,000 doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine from the Covax Facility may arrive in the country either in March or April. Abeyasinghe also said that 4.5 million more doses of AstraZeneca vaccine are expected to arrive in the country before the end of May. “We are looking at up to 4.5 million doses which will come during April and May,” Abeyasinghe said. The WHO official reminded the government anew to follow the prioritization list. On Monday, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that Sinovac and AstraZeneca vaccines in the country are not yet enough for the 1.8 million healthcare workers (HCWs). “We have 1.8 million estimated health-care workers from hospitals down to the community across the different regions of the community kaya kulang pa po para makumpleto ang health workers natin [We still lack vaccines for them],” Vergeire said. Vergeire also warned that the dependents of medical frontliners are not allowed to receive Covid-19 vaccine. The dependents or family members , she said, cannot act as replacement for they are not part of the “priority list.” If the prioritization list will not be followed, Vergeire stressed, the vaccine allocation from the Covax facility may be jeopardized. With Claudeth Mocon-Ciriaco

DOTr orders ‘strict’ enforcement of health protocols amid reported uptick in virus cases By Lorenz S. Marasigan @lorenzmarasigan

& Jovee Marie N. Dela Cruz @joveemarie

EPARTMENT of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur P. Tugade has ordered the strengthening of enforcement of protocols for health and safety in public transport terminals and vehicles amid a noted spike in the number of daily cases of Covid-19 in the country. He said he has “directed all transport sectors to ensure that their respective enforcers and transport marshals assigned on the streets and in various transportation hubs are strictly enforcing the health protocols and stem the further spread of the virus.” “The safety of commuters is paramount. I am ordering all transport sectors to strictly enforce the health and safety protocols in order to help prevent the spread of Covid,” Tugade stressed. Over the past few days, the number of new cases of Covid-19 rose to close to 600,000 cases, after posting a steep increase of over 3,300 cases two days ago. OCTA Research thinks that the Philippines may record as much as 6,000 new cases per day by the end of March. Tugade said he has ordered enforcers from the Land Transportation Office (LTO), Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB), and train marshals to make sure that proper social distancing is being observed inside public transport vehicles and inside transport terminals. Enforcers and marshals, he said, have to ensure that commuters entering terminals and boarding public transport are also wearing masks and face shields. They should also remind commuters not to talk or eat while inside trains. Tugade also ordered public transport operators to ensure that their

vehicles are safe and are properly disinfected. “Operators must disinfect their vehicles. Terminals should also be able to enforce health safety protocols. Drivers also have the responsibility to protect the life, safety, and health of their passengers,” he said.

Unified contact tracing pool

TWO committees of the House of Representatives on Tuesday adopted a resolution urging the Covid-19 Inter-Agency Task Force of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to establish a unified national contact tracing protocol. House Resolution 1536 was adopted by the House Committees on Health and on Information and Communications Technology, chaired by Quezon Fourth District Rep. Angelina Tan and Tarlac Second District Rep. Victor Yap, respectively, to ensure a more effective health emergency data monitoring system in the country. Speaker Lord Allan Velasco, author of the resolution, underscored the need to strengthen the government’s contact tracing efforts using the most effective and safest system to further boost its response to the Covid-19 pandemic. He said an effective and safe contact tracing system would help control the spread of the virus that has already claimed more than 12,500 lives and infected more than half a million people nationwide. Contact tracing is the process of finding out who has recently been in close contact with a person infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, and reaching out to those people to let them know they may have been exposed and guide them on what to do next, which may include self-isolating to prevent further spread of the virus. Velasco said the Philippines is only able to identify at least seven contacts per coronavirus-infected person when the ideal contact tracing ratio should be 1:35 for urban areas and 1:30 for rural communities.

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