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SALIENT POINTS OF THE JULY 31 PRRD ADDRESS TO THE NATION: A thread 🇵🇭👊

-QUARANTINE UPDATE-
✅GCQ: National Capital Region, Bulacan, Batangas, Cavite, Laguna, Rizal, Cebu City, Lapu-Lapu City, Mandaue City, Zamboanga City
✅MGCQ: The rest of the Philippines

-CONDITIONS FOR NCR AND REGION 4A-
✅Strict localized lockdowns and ECQ in barangays with high COVID cases
✅Intensified targeted testing, contact tracing, quarantine of patients
✅Strict implementation of health protocols
✅COVID positives must go to isolation facilities

-CONDITIONS FOR NCR AND REGION 4A-
✅Wearing of face shields now including in health protocols
✅COVID bed capacity in public hospitals to be increased to 30%
✅LGUs required to submit COVID control measures, case reports, among others

✅PRRD: I thank the Lord for gracing the brains of vaccine development
✅PRRD: We could have no roadmap to recovery without first having medicine
✅PRRD: By the grace of God, I hope we could be back to normal by December

✅PRRD: China to prioritize to PH in receiving vaccine; To our credit, we've been friendly with them
✅PRRD: First to receive vaccine are those receiving government aid, next are middle income; security forces to be prioritized too
✅PRRD: Upper income class? Buy your own vaccine

✅PRRD: Military to lead distribution of vaccine
✅PRRD states that drug addicts/pushers will not be given vaccine, compares them to dogs
✅Sec. Dominguez states PHP20-B may be needed to buy 40 million vaccine doses
✅Dominguez: Landbank + DBP to finance vaccine purchase

✅Dominguez: Vaccines will be given for free to the poor
✅Dominguez: DOH will decide which vaccine/s will be distributed
✅Dominguez: Economy is starting to pick up, with some problems. There's need for more transportation and people should be encouraged to spend

✅Dominguez: There is no problem with liquidity, economy is not short of money
✅Dominguez: Inflation is low
✅Dominguez: Peso is strongest currency in Asia
✅PRRD: Mankind was able to arrest COVID-19 spread
✅PRRD: Government ready to buy face masks, give them out for free

✅Briones: 22.3 million enrollees on assumption that blended learning classes will start on Aug 24
✅Briones: Private schools badly hit by low enrollment
✅Briones: Schedule for face to face learning is on 2021
✅Briones: 345 DepEd districts had dry run on blended learning

✅Año: 16-20 days processing of telco licenses, permits by LGUs to be done thru new JMC
✅Globe President Cu: Telcos once needed to have a lot of permits to build towers in LGUs, process can take 8 months
✅PRRD: Yung manghingi ng bayad para sa vaccine, pupuntahan kita

✅For his last remarks, PRRD delivered a message to the CPP-NPA: Do not touch the military, police, the doctors, and other frontliners. Let's just fight after the COVID pandemic.

That's the salient points of the PRRD JULY 31 ADDRESS TO THE NATION.

Let's follow the existing health guidelines. The slowing down and eventual decline in COVID cases will depend on our cooperation.

Remember, we will #HealAsOne and #BeatCOVID19! ✅🇵🇭