The Palace wishes to announce that Executive Secretary Salvador C. Medialdea, by order of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, issued a Memorandum today, March 18, 2020, addressed to heads of departments, agencies, offices and instrumentalities of the government, government-owned or controlled corporations, government financial institutions and state universities and colleges, as well as local government units.

Reports reached our office on the plight of workers and employees stranded from work, as well as those health workers and those in the exempted group of the ban who could not go to their places of work on Day One of the Enhanced Community Quarantine in Luzon.

The Palace confirms that President Rodrigo Roa Duterte signed Proclamation No. 929 on March 16, 2020, declaring a state of calamity throughout the Philippines for a period of six (6) months, unless earlier lifted or extended as the circumstances may warrant.

The Office of the President confirms that the Group Commander of the Presidential Security Group (PSG), Colonel Jesus P. Durante III PA (GSC), also tested negative after undergoing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) testing together with President Rodrigo Roa Duterte and Senator Christopher Lawrence Go.

We wish to assure our countrymen that the Office of the President is providing the needed funds of the DOH, DOST and UP Manila’s National Institutes of Health in the production of the diagnostic kits for the COVID-19 tests.

The LGUs can impose curfew within their territories if an ordinance is passed imposing it. In the meantime, the Metro Manila Mayors’ recommendation to impose a curfew in Metro Manila is subject to the approval of the President. The President has yet to consider it.

Following the issuance of the Office of the President of the Memorandum which contains the directives and guidelines relative to the community quarantine imposed in the National Capitol Region (NCR), the Palace stresses that non-essential entry into and exit from the said region is restricted and prevented, respectively.

For purposes of clarity, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases has agreed that, aside from the President, only the Presidential Spokesperson and the Secretary of Health may announce or discuss the general policies and guidelines pertaining to the issuances and directives of the Philippine Government in addressing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the country.

Matapos ang masusing pagsusuri ng Tanggapan ng Pangulo sa mga direktiba at panuntunang inihanda ng Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases, si Kalihim Tagapagpaganap Salvador C Medialdea, sa atas ni Pangulong Rodrigo Roa Duterte, ay nag-isyu ng Memorandum para sa mga punò ng kagawaran, ahensiya, tanggapan at instrumentalidad ng pamahalaan, government-owned or controlled corporations, government financial institutions, at state universities and colleges, at pati na ang mga lokal na Read More

After a thorough review of the Office of the President of the directives and guidelines crafted by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF), Executive Secretary Salvador C. Medialdea, by order of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, issued a Memorandum addressed to heads of departments, agencies, offices and instrumentalities of the government, government-owned or controlled corporations, government financial institutions and state universities and colleges, as well as local government Read More