Marcos ordered all agencies to ensure that their policies, rules, and regulations will take into consideration the lifting of the state of public health emergency and amend existing rules or promulgate new ones. Rep. Angelica Natasha Co, vice chair of the health committee of the House of Representatives, said the government must keep pushing hard to give the jabs to the vulnerable, unvaccinated, and unboosted Filipinos even after the public health emergency had been lifted. Duterte declared a nationwide public health emergency on March 8, 2020. Healthcare workers had expressed concerns that the distribution of health emergency allowance might be halted with the lifting of the public health emergency. The grant of these benefits applies only during a public health emergency, but health workers are saying that the government should still give them the allowances that had not been paid during the pandemic.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 22, 2023 22:03 UTC