02/08/2020
Manila Standard PH
JUST IN | The Cabinet's 7-point recommendation to President Rodrigo Duterte:
1. Upgrade lockdown protocols to MECQ in Metro Manila, Bulacan and Calabarzon.
2. Hire additional healthcare workers and form a healthcare worker reserve. The government will also enter into a memorandum of agreement with private hospitals to allow the deployment of state healthcare workers to private facilities until December 2020.
3. Give additional benefits to healthcare workers: P10,000 risk allowance for private sector healthcare workers and free life insurance under a pending bill.
4. Free accommodation and transportation as well as free and frequent COVID-19 testing for healthcare workers.
5. Require work and quarantine passes anew to minimize people going out on non-essential travels.
6. Ramp up localized lockdowns.
7. Intensify street enforcement of guidelines for minimum health standard and procure 20 million cloth masks for the poor.