Residents in Davao City venturing out of their homes are arrested by police on Sunday (April 19) in Davao City. Food and medicine passes are not valid on Sundays and only workers from essential industries are allowed to leave their homes during the lockdown. — Facebook
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): President Rodrigo Duterte is meeting with health experts and former heads of the Department of Health (DOH) on Monday (April 20) to receive “critical information” that will help him decide whether to extend the Luzon lockdown anew or allow partial business reopenings to stave off an economic disaster.
Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said on Sunday that the critical information will be provided during the meeting of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases, the temporary government body that oversees the administration’s response to the new coronavirus pandemic.
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