The recommendation of Mr. Jose Ma. Sison, founding chairperson of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), to issue a declaration of a ceasefire addressed to the New People’s Army (NPA) purportedly in response to the call of the United Nations Secretary General for a global armistice, is a positive development.

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte signed Administrative Order No. 26 today, March 23, 2020, granting hazard pay (COVID-19 Hazard Pay) to government personnel who report for work, with retroactive application beginning March 17, 2020.

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte issued Proclamation No. 933 on March 21, 2020, where he called on Congress to a special session that it may pass a law authorising the President to exercise the necessary powers to carry out the urgent measures to meet the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) national emergency.

The Palace confirms that President Rodrigo Roa Duterte signed Proclamation No. 934 yesterday, March 21, 2020, declaring the fourth week of March 2020 as a National Week of Prayer. In said proclamation, the Chief Executive urged all Filipinos of faiths, religious traditions and backgrounds to unite our hearts in prayer as we face the threat of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

The forceful imposition of a lockdown in Luzon was ordered by the President to put the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) dead on its tracks.

The Office of the President would like to thank the contributions of several businesses in our fight to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

The Office of the President welcomes the timely issuance by its Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and the Commission on Audit (COA), an independent constitutional body, of Joint Circular No. 1, s. 2020.

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has addressed the nation where he stressed the critical role of the local governments as partners of the National Government in implementing the guidelines and protocols it established in preventing the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) during the Enhanced Community Quarantine or Lockdown in the entire Luzon.

Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairperson Jose Ma. Sison is again engaged in a ranting nonsense that only high lights his perverted vision of reality as well as his insensitivity to the present grave peril that the Filipino people he professed to fight for face.

The Palace wishes to extend its utmost gratitude to our health care and service providers, law enforcement agents, as well as our people in the frontline of our country’s battle against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).