UPDATES FROM THE JUNE 23, 2020 IATF-EID BRIEFING
1. UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL TASK FORCE
• 62,022 Overseas Filipinos have returned home
• Handling and management of Filipinos in Sandakan, Saba c/o DSWD, DOH, OWWA, and PPA; minimum 400 pax per sortie with 15 days interval; Zamboanga City as the processing area
2. IMPLEMENTATION OF LOCALIZED LOCKDOWNS
• NCR: 19
• CAR: 67
• Region IV-A: 2
• Region VII: 19
• Region VIII: 1
• Region X: 5
• Total: 113
3. SAP REPORT
• 496 complaints; 728 suspects; 264 cases; 157 filed with Public Prosecutors Office; 61 under investigation; 153 barangay captains involved; 20 barangay captains charged by the Ombudsman
• Full blast distribution of 2nd tranche to be completed this week
• Areas included in the distribution: Benguet, Pangasinan, Region III (except Aurora), NCR, Region IV-A, Albay, Iloilo, Bacolod City, Cebu Province, Zamboanga City, Davao City
4. UPDATES ON IATF RESOLUTION NO. 48
• Recalibration of current parameters: focus on case doubling time (CDT) and critical care utilization (CUR)
• Major change: Areas under low-risk classification will still be under MGCQ. There will be no LGU which will be classified under the “new normal.”
• MECQ and MGCQ modifiers: social, economic and security factors; clustering of cases; health system capacity; continuous trend or increasing/decreasing new cases, CUR, CDT
• Updated methodology for LGU appeals for classification
- Daily trend of active cases, number, percent of population
- Percent of close contacts traced, percent of contacts in quarantine
- Number and utilization of community isolation beds
- Have met health system capacity targets and utilization
- COVID Special Teams investigation and results
- Priority areas for segmental lockdown
• Basic reporting parameters to streamline reporting of national epidemiologic picture
- National daily number of cases adjusted for date of report, including the 7-day moving average
- National daily number of cases around the country
- Association of number of daily tests and daily positivity rate
- Time-varying reproduction number
- COVID-19 deaths over time
• Sub-TWG convened to study and address the management of foreign nationals who will be allowed to enter the Philippines for specific purposes
• Dine-in food establishment industries are allowed to operate up to 9:00 p.m.
5. IMMEDIATE CONCERNS IN CEBU
• DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu to oversee COVID response in Cebu
• DOH, DILG, and NTF to assist Sec. Cimatu
• Lack of medical personnel in different major hospitals
• Increasing severe and critical cases which affect the healthcare capacity of Cebu City
• Need to increase the capacity of Cebu City and Cebu Province while on ECQ/MECQ
• Need to organize NTF Response Group to enforce quarantine protocols
6. CONCERNS IN EASTERN VISAYAS
• NTF visit scheduled on Wednesday
• Will provide PPE, test kits and N95 masks
• Need to mobilize the RIATF and RTF
• LSIs to be tested with PCR
• NTF to inspect labs and quarantine facilities
7. ANTI-TERRORISM BILL
• PRRD legal team is studying the bill as it needs to check on constitutional infirmities.