MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday defended the decision of the government’s Covid-19 task force in the exemption of government personnel on official business from the testing and quarantine protocols of local government units, saying that it aims not to “delay government transactions.”
“This has been decided in the IATF (Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases). Noong dinesisyonan ‘yan, ang talagang objective is for us not to delay government transactions,” DOH spokesperson and undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said during the Laging Handa online press briefing.
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