IPs won’t be left behind amid Covid-19 vax drive: Andanar
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Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar assured the indigenous peoples (IPs) that they would not be cast out amid the national government’s coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) immunization drive. During the Cabinet Report on “The New Normal” on Friday, Andanar said President Rodrigo Duterte has a
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clear policy that no one will be left behind, as the government intends to vaccinate Filipinos against Covid-19. “Tama si Presidente, dapat walang maiiwan, dapat walang iwanan. Kasama na diyan ang ating kapwa Pilipinong palabas ng bansa upang maghanapbuhay, ang ating mga kapwa Pilipinong nasa indigenous cultural communities
at ang ating mga kapwa Pilipinong nasa Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas (The President is right that no one should be left behind. Filipinos who are leaving the country for work, members of the indigenous cultural communities and living in geographically-isolated and -disadvantaged areas should also be given priority),” Andanar said. Caraga INFOCUS
