Manila City families to receive P1,000 cash aid, Isko says
MANILA, Philippines — The City Government of Manila is set to extend P1000 aid to more than 5,000 families in the city as the Luzon-wide enhanced community lockdown.
Manila City Mayor Isko Moreno announced in a Facebook live Sunday night that he signed Ordinance No. 8625, allowing the grant of City Amelioration Crisis Assistance Fund (CAFAF) 2020.
“Bawat isang pamilya, 568,000 families per total of the listed barangays, tatanggap po kayo—kaysa intayin pa niyo ang pagkain na laging nade-delay dahil sa kulang na suplay—ay bibigyan po kayo ng pamahalaang lungsod ng Maynila na tig-iisang libong piso,” Moreno said.
(Each family, 568,000 families per total of the listed barangays will receive—instead of waiting for food box that is always delayed due to supplies—will be given P1,000 each by the city government of Manila.)
This will be on top of the food box that will be given to the families in the city, Moreno added.
The city mayor said priority will be given to the 544 barangays who are yet to receive food box from the local government.
“House-to-house (ang distribution), wala pong pila. Lahat ng itinala ninyo ay dapat n’yong bigyan isa-isa. Sila ay mag-iisyu ng resibo at acknowledgement receipt,” he explained.
(We will distribute it on a house-to-house basis. There will be no lining up. All that you have noted will be given aid. They will issue acknowledgement receipts.)
The CAFAF, amounting to P591.5 million, will be sourced from the following:
- Office of the Mayor, Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses (MOOE)-Expenses – P200,000,000
- Manila Department of Social Welfare – P124,000,000
- 20% City Development Fund – P267,500,000
Moreno explained that the city government reached a decision to postpone other government projects to create the fund.
“The amount P1,000 per beneficiary shall be given to the barangay identified beneficiaries as financial assistance to be distributed in the 896 Barangays in the City of Manila to cushion the effect of COVID-19 crisis and to enable the people of Manila to purchase much needed food and supplies for their survival,” the Ordinance read. — Kristine Joy Patag
Photo shows members of the Philippine National Police deployed in Manila amid COVID-19 threat. The STAR/Edd Gumban
President Rodrigo Duterte on March 16, 2020 declares an enhanced community quarantine over all of mainland Luzon, an expansion of an earlier general community quarantine over the National Capital Region.
The entire National Capital Region—16 cities and a municipality—is under community quarantine from March 15 to April 14, which means the enforcement of social distancing measures like letting fewer people on public transportation, reduced store hours, and the possibiity of curfews.
According to a memorandum issued by the Palace on Saturday, March 14, the quarantine means that "movement of people shall be limited to accessing basic necessities and work; and uniformed personnel and quarantine officers shall be present at border points."
Travel restrictions in and out of the capital will also be implemented.
A labor group says another lockdown will never resolve rising COVID-19 cases in the Philippines after the government announced that Metro Manila, Cavite, Laguna, Bulacan and Rizal are placed under the enhanced community quarantine starting Monday.
“The Duterte government seems to be deliberate in focusing its efforts in imposing quarantine and lockdown measures instead of addressing the rising cases of COVID-19 and the worsening state of the pandemic through medical solutions and scientific approach,” says Defend Jobs Philippines.
Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque says the implementation of enhanced community quarantine is meant to slow down the increase of COVID-19 cases, so hospitals and health workers will not be overwhelmed.
Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque announces that Metro Manila, Cavite, Laguna, Bulacan and Rizal are placed under enhanced community quarantine starting Monday, March 29.
Tuguegarao City will be placed under enhanced community quarantine from January 20 to 29 due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the city.
Cagayan Gov. Manuel Mamba approved the request of Tuguegarao Mayor Jefferson Soriano to place the city under ECQ for 10 days.
According to the Cagayan Provincial Information Office, the city currently has 246 active cases.
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Batangas, one of the provinces hardest hit by the novel coronavirus, has reported no new cases of the disease for two consecutive days.
The provincial DOH Office says the number of COVID-19 cases in the province stood at 91 with no new cases as of Wednesday afternoon.
Lipa City has the most cases with 26, followed by Batangas City (21) and Nasugbu (11).
Tanauan City has the fourth most cases with eight, followed by Bauan (5) and Alitagtag (3). Cuenca and Sto. Tomas City had two cases each, while the municipalities of Calaca, Lemery, Lian, Lobo, Mabini, Mataas na Kahoy, Padre Garcia, San Jose, San Juan, San Pascual and Taal had one case each, respectively. — The Filipino Connection
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