Type of Intervention: Regulation, Specific Action
Sectors Involved: Executive Office, Local Government, Research and Development, Social Services
Intervention Categories: Listening to scientists or health/other experts
Level of Jurisdiction: National
Lead People/Agency: IATF
Overview: Establishment of parameters proposed by IATF sub-technical working group (TWG) on Data Analytics for deciding the lifting or extension of the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in Luzon. Parameters are the following:
1) Analyze trends in COVID-19 epidemiological curve (acceleration/deceleration of new cases; doubling time)
2) Analyze the capacity of the health care system
3) Social Factors
4) Economic Factors; and
5) Security Factors
Full details here: https://www.covid19.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IATF-Resolution-No.-19.pdf
Type of Justification: Advice of INTERNAL government advisory committee or group
Source of Evidence or Justification: National – academic
Evidence/Justification: – President Duterte passed Presidential Proclamation No. 922 on March 8, 2020, declaring a state of public health emergency in the Philippines
– President Duterte also passed Presidential proclamation No.929 to enable both national government agencies and local government units (LGUs) to utilize emergency funds during the pandemic
-IATF convened in a meeting on March 30 2020 and passed a subsequent resolution calling for the development of science-based approach in determining whether the ECQ in Luzon can be extended or lifted.