MANILA, Philippines – The Senate approved on Tuesday a bill seeking to grant President Rodrigo Duterte the “necessary and proper” powers to adopt several “temporary emergency measures” to deal with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. ADVERTISEMENTVoting 12-0, the lawmakers passed the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act (Senate Bill No. The amendments made include helping health workers who have been and are likely to be infected with the latest coronavirus strain, as well as giving financial aid to health workers who died of the disease. 1413 earlier filed by Senate President Vicente Sotto III and Sen. Pia Cayetano — was contained in Committee Report No. These establishments will be for the use of housing health workers and will also serve as quarantine facilities as well as medical relief and aid distribution locations.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 23, 2020 17:24 UTC