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OPAPP forms center to assist BARMM in fight vs COVID-19
COTABATO CITY – The Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace
Process (OPAPP) has created a coordinating center to ensure harmony
among local government units (LGUs) in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region
in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in the fight against the coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19).
In a statement, OPAPP announced its creation of the
Coordinating Center Mindanao on COVID-19 (CCMC) “as part of the agency’s
efforts to monitor the situation” in BARMM amid the State of Health
Emergency in the country.
“Our
main priority at this point is the health and safety of the Bangsamoro
people, and those… in the frontlines. We need to ensure that residents
are provided with relief assistance as quarantine measures are strictly
enforced,” Sec. Carlos Galvez Jr., OPAPP chief, said.
Galvez
lauded the BARMM’s “LGUs and neighboring areas for promptly setting up
task forces to monitor and mitigate the spread of the disease,” saying
that through such task forces, “we shall be able to effectively respond
to pressing issues and concerns as they arise.”
“We, therefore,
urge the BARMM’s regional and local chief executives, legislators,
personnel, and most especially, the people, to work together as one as
we address the situation in the best way possible,” he said.
“We
believe that preventing the spread of the coronavirus cannot be done
through separate interventions by local government units (LGUs) but
through concerted action as provided by the guidelines of the President
and the IATF- EID (Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious
Diseases),” he pointed out.
He added: “The need for greater
complementation and coordination among LGUs, government agencies, and
the whole Filipino Community will be critical in this effort.”
His
statement was sent to the Bulletin on Saturday in the wake of reports
that BARMM and city officials were tangled in cases of collision in the
enforcement of their respective campaigns against COVID-19 threats.
Mayor
Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi placed this city under community quarantine on
March 16 and later enhanced it into lockdown, tapping armed elements of
the Task Force Kutawato (JTFK) to assist health workers and ban
unnecessary entry and exit at the city borders with nearby Sultan
Kudarat and Datu Odin Sinsuat towns in Maguindanao.
The BARMM’s
IATF had reportedly received reports about commotions at checkpoints on
the borders of this city with Sultan Kudarat (SK) and Datu Odin Sinsuat
(SK) towns in the first two days of the lockdown here.
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