SEC. MARTIN ANDANAR PCOO
NEWS CORNER
Andanar to LGUs: Be vigilant, not afraid, amid health crisis MANILA – Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar on Friday urged the local public officials to remain vigilant and sustain the gains of the government’s hard work to combat coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). In his opening remarks during the fourth Covid-19 virtual town hall meeting, Andanar said local government units (LGUs) need not be afraid of the threats posed by Covid-19.
continues to persist, we must not fear. Instead, we must step out in faith without letting our guards down,” Andanar told local government officials who participated in the virtual conference. The national government has implemented stringent quarantine measures to address the Covid-19 pandemic. LGUs are also helping the national government in its Covid-19 battle by imposing the quarantine rules within their respective localities. Andanar said local public officials should help President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration in boosting the efforts in containing Covid-19. “A whole-of-nation urgency is the directive of the President. Let us speak as one, write as one, and heal as one,” he said. Be a guiding light Andanar expressed optimism that LGUs would become a “guiding light” of the public amid the Covid-19 crisis. “This may be the purest manifestation of communication and the reality of our new world. Be the guiding light because of, and despite, the threat of Covid-19,” he said.
Andanar said that local public “As we step out of our homes, we officials played an important role in the find ourselves in a different world – a fight against the Covid-19 pandemic place where sickness and death are and in the transition to the so-called just around the corner. While Covid-19 “new normal.”
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| May 23-29, 2020
