Declaration of Policy: Why is there a need to enact this policy? To contain and mitigate the transmission of COVID-19 To provide assistance to those affected by the community quarantine To shoulder the overburdening of the healthcare system To immediately provide medical tests and treatments to COVID-19 patients, PUIs and PUMs To undertake recovery and…
How Other Countries are Battling the Pandemic
In the Philippines, a lot of things have changed due to the enhanced community quarantine that was implemented on March 16, 2020. This was to contain the virus and to mitigate the effect of the pandemic on everyone. Every country is proactive in preventing COVID-19 from spreading. Let us take a look at the measures…
What We Can Learn From the SARS Outbreak
The spread of the COVID-19 has greatly affected the Philippines, but this is not the first pandemic the country has faced. An epidemic of SARS in 2003 affected 26 countries including the Philippines. The country had 14 cases of SARS, the lowest number of infected individuals out of all the 26 countries. Because of this…
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