Duterte appoints Galvez chief implementer of COVID-19 response

Updated Fri, March 27, 2020 at 12:30 PM Published Thu, March 26, 2020 at 8:00 AM

President Duterte appointed peace process Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. as Chief Implementer of the government's national policy for addressing the coronavirus pandemic.

Galvez's mandate is to ensure strict adherence to the guidelines and protocols set by the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases by both public and private sectors.

Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana welcomed Galvez's appointment and stated that he, Galvez, and Interior Secretary Eduardo Año will ensure the strict enforcement of lockdown measures.

Lorenzana also stated that the National Action Plan (NAP), chaired by him and with Año as vice chair, will handle the logistics of government measures against COVID-19 to allow frontliners to focus on their tasks.

The IATF is led by the Department of Health (DOH), while the National Task Force (NTF) COVID-19 will be headed by the Department of National Defense (DND) with the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) as vice chair.

Secretary Galvez will manage the day-to-day operations of the TF.

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