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Philippines' latest response to the pandemic

by Anna Malindog.Uy (27 September 2020)

The COVID-19 pandemic has to a considerable degree exposed the Philippines to several vulnerabilities, which include the knock-on effect of the pandemic on the country's economy, weakness of the country's existing health care system and infrastructures, and threats to food security because of the fragile agriculture and food systems of the country.

The Philippine government has recognized that if these limitations are not addressed and given attention, they could aggravate the already challenging situation of the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The government has responded and taken steps and interventions to mitigate the situation and the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country.

Some of the most important and recent initiatives by the Philippine government as part of its mitigation response to the pandemic include: (a) the establishment of the One Command Hospital Center (OCHC) launched last month (August 2020) as a referral system between private and public hospital, (b) the ramping-up of the country's testing capacity (c) the augmentation in the numbers of contract-tracers and intensified contract tracing efforts; (d) the scaling-up of local health care system capacity and infrastructure, (e) the recent passage into law of the Bayanihan Act 2; and (f) the latest directive of President Rodrigo Duterte to extend the "state of calamity" in the Philippines until 12 September 2021 to gwe the national and local governments time to marshal their resources to better address and defeat the pandemic.​