MANILA, Philippines — The House of Representatives will be creating a “Defeat COVID-19 Committee” which will serve as an advisory and coordinating committee to the national inter-agency task force, House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano announced Monday. The Defeat COVID-19 Committee shall include the House’s committee on health, economic affairs, tourism, trade and industry, labor acne employment, public information, banks, and financial intermediaries, appropriations, ways and means, local government, and the Metro Manila development. Cayetano will supervise the COVID-19 committee. COVID-19 is a respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus that first emerged in China’s city of Wuhan in Hubei province in late 2019. ADVERTISEMENTThe International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses named the novel coronavirus as SARS-CoV-2.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 16, 2020 08:15 UTC