The Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases handed over to the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) the power to lead the COVID-19 contact tracing efforts amid the ongoing pandemic.
“Kahapon po nadesisyunan po ng IATF na ang DILG na po, sa tulong ng ating mga LGU, ang mangunguna sa contact-tracing efforts (The IATF has decided yesterday that the DILG, through the help of LGUs, will lead contact-tracing efforts),” IATF Spokesperson Karlo Nograles said.
Nograles added the DILG was assigned to enter into a data-sharing agreement with the Department of Health (DOH) in accordance with the Data Privacy Act.
IATF Resolution No. 22 initially assigned the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) to lead the contact tracing efforts of the government.
Meanwhile, Nograles relayed how the IATF is encouraging LGUs to include sugar in their relief goods to help the sugar industry.
Meanwhile, Nograles clarified that the circulating report that he told in a business briefing that the enhanced community quarantine will be extended anew by President Duterte is “totally untrue” and fake.
