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MANILA — With COVID no longer a serious national health issue, Health Secretary Ted Herbosa is planning to recommend to President Marcos the lifting of the state of public health emergency, but with the alert level system retained.
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In an interview, Herbosa said Proclamation No. 922 issued by former president Rodrigo Duterte may now have to be lifted, with “COVID-19 being no longer different from the other diseases the Department of Health (DOH) is monitoring.”
“With the World Health Organization
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(WHO), there is no longer an emergency. So I would actually ask (for) the lifting of the public health emergency,” Herbosa said.
“Actually, it really seems that it is no longer a public health emergency. There is no more public health emergency... So we want it lifted,” he said. “It is now just one of the diseases that we monitor, like influenza, cough, colds, etc.”
However, he said he is in favor of retaining the alert level system for COVID-19.
“The alert level system will stay. That’s a system like the typhoon signal,” he said.
The WHO declared COVID-19 as a “public health emergency of international
MANILA — The U.S. government’s request for the Philippines to temporarily host 50,000 former Afghan employees and their families has not reached President Marcos yet and is still being studied by the Department of Justice (DOJ), the defense department said on Monday, June 26.
Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro said while the government would study all the implications of the request, it has to determine first whether it is allowed under the law, particularly the Immigration Act.
“This issue has not reached him (Marcos) yet because we are still studying it. We are still waiting for the opinion of the DOJ on whether it is legal because if it is not allowed under the law of the republic, what else will we talk about?” Teodoro told reporters after the celebration of the 160th anniversary of the Philippine Forestry Service in Quezon City. He said no specific timeframe has been set for the DOJ to finish its opinion on the matter.
“As soon as possible, but there is a need to scrutinize all issues,” the defense chief said in Filipino. Teodoro said officials have not
