MANILA, Philippines — Safeguarding public health and allowing Filipinos to return to their livelihoods should not be a “binary choice,” Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said Wednesday. “In a country whose median age is below 25, the COVID-19 health emergency is perhaps the toughest economic crisis most of our people will live through. We need to strike a reasonable balance between safeguarding public health and restarting our economy,” Dominguez said during a pre-State of the Nation Address forum. “Health and livelihood is not a binary choice. Cavite and Rizal are also under GCQ while Batangas, Laguna, and Quezon are under modified GCQ, the lightest form of lockdown measure.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 08, 2020 05:48 UTC