 In late March of 2020, the Interagency Task Force on Emerging and Infectious Diseases, also known as IATF, EID, was able to develop a national action plan. The national action plan created the National Task Force against COVID-19 and together with it, a chief implementer, secretary Carlito Galvis Jr. Welcome to TV UP Health Issues. This is your host, Dr. Teddy Herbosa. Our guest for today is a seasoned military general, served 38 years in the armed forces and is a top helicopter pilot. He has multiple awards and eventually in his career became chief strategist and spokesperson of the armed forces of the Philippines. Today, he is the official spokesperson of the National Task Force against COVID-19. Let's all welcome General Resti Tuto, Resti Padilla. Welcome, General. Thank you very much, Dr. Ted. Then I'm very honored to be here this afternoon to join you para makasambarin po lahat ng mga nasa UP community na patuloy na nagsusubay-bay at sumusubay-bay dito sa programa niya. Thank you very much, General. I see that your helicopter pilot has brought you to outer space. So, let's start with the first question. First question is, what exactly is the National Task Force or NTF and how does it relate to the more popular IATF? Thank you, Dr. Ted. That question has often been answered. I mean, asked me. The IATF actually is the strategic policy-making body composed of all the cabinet secretaries of the government right now. And the IATF is headed by the Secretary of Health, this problem that we're currently facing being a health issue. And the NTF COVID-19 is the implementing arm or the operational arm of the IATF. So, the IATF creates all the policies and all the issuances from national government and then brings this down to the level of the NTF COVID. And under the NTF COVID, by the way, that is co-chaired by the Secretary of National Defense and the DILG Secretary, Secretary Lorenzana and Secretary Año. And the third guy in the NTF COVID-19 Task Force is the Chief Implementer, Secretary Charlie Galvez. To whom much of the task that is handed down by the IATF down to the NTF COVID-19 is given to implement. So, that is the relationship between the IATF and the NTF COVID-19. Thank you very much. So, the operational arm for the implementation of the strategies of the IATF is done by the National Task Force or NTF. That's correct, Dr. Ted. And sila po yung nagpatupad ng lahat nang binibigay at linaagawa ng IATF. So, ang IATF po ay matagal na nagmimiting, kadang meeting nila at pinag-uusapan ng mga malaliman, lahat na mga nice nilang ipatupad, na mga issues na kailangan nilang harapin. At para nakaka-epekto sa public health, nakaka-epekto sa kabuang panggalaw ng ating buong bansa in relation dito sa hinaharap natin health issue. Maybe, General, you can summarize to us the features of the National Action Plan against COVID-19. Ano ano ba ang mga kailangan iimplement ng National Task Force na nakalagay at sila sabi dito sa National Action Plan? So, tulad po nang sinabi natin kanina. Maraming salamat, Dr. Ted. Tama-tama po. Nung nagbigay ng abiso ang IATF na kina kailangan nila magkaroon ng isang group o isang organization para magpatupad ng kanilang lahat na binabobang policiya, nagkaroon ng NTF COVID-19 at ito nga po yung ating dinaskas kanina. At sa kanilang pagkaorganisa, ang una nilang ginawa ay isang National Action Plan o yung strategic plan para sa kabuang ng bansa na kinakailangan natin gawin para harapin ng mainam nito ang problema ang kinaharap natin. So, the NTF COVID came up with what we call now the National Action Plan which is actually the game plan against the pandemic for the current disease called COVID-19. So, when it came to for that National Action Plan, incorporated in it about five pillars that are very important. And to summarize those pillars, actually the pillars are essentially summed up in finding out the environment or detecting and looking for this enemy and then coming up with plans to face it and to mitigate its effect. Essentially ganoon yung plano. At yung plano na yan ay maaring ielaborate pa natin sa 3 strategiya na ngayon kinikilalabi lang T3, yung N2N T3 management. Yung po ang alam natin ngayon, yan na po ngayon ay yung modified na plano. So, yung T3 or N2N management ay akronin po sa 3 salita. Yung testing, kasama na yan ang tracing, treating at saka test, trace and treat. So, yung pangatpo yung treat, kasi pag nalaman natin kung na saan yung sakit na sino nagdadalan ito dahil sa pagtitest natin, i-trace natin ngayon kung sino ang mga nakahalubilo nito nang nagdadalan ng sakit at lahat sila gagamotin o ilalagay sa isolation. So, yun po yung tatlong pillar ng strategiya na yan pero kung i-expand natin, actually lima po talaga yan. Nagsisimula po yan sa prevention. So, yung prevention po ay yung pinakamainam na hakbang para hindi ka kalat yung sakit. So, this is the first step actually, the prevention phase. And this is where the repeated reminder that comes from government is link up 2. So, ito yung minimum health standard practice which is to wear a mask when you go out to continue to wash your hands often so that you don't spread the germs or bring it to yourself. And then in effect, maintaining a very strong immune system of each person by the practice of this minimum health standard. So, yun po yung prevention. And then sumosunod dyan yung testing. Kasama na dyan sa testing ay yung pag-detect, pag-trace na napaka-importante upang ma-isolate yung kina-kailangan isolate at hindi maipasa sa community yung mga sakit. So, once the testing and the tracing has been done and most of those people who carry the disease or who may have the disease are found, they are now isolated and treated. And then pumapasok yung tinatabong na treat na portion ng ating strata hia or plano. And then the last one actually is the reintegration portion. So, when one gets well or pagumaling na sila, yung panghulipo na partin ng plano ay yung ibabalik na sila sa community at makakabalik na sila sa dati nilang ginagawa. Hindi sa dati ginagawa na walang minimum health standard kundi hindi sabihin makakapag-perform na sila as a productive member of society. So yun po yung kabuan ng National Action Plan. So, T3, test, trace, and treat. And then sa testing, nag-umpisa po tayo, we started with very few molecular laboratories yung tinatawag natin PCR testing. So asa na po ba tayo sa National Plan in terms of molecular laboratories na padami na po ba natin at na implement na ba yung expansion of all these test centers in different parts of the country? In as far as testing is concerned, I'd like to just go back a little bit to the National Action Plan. The National Action Plan actually was patterned after military strategy formulation. And it followed the design of military decision making. So yun huyong naging kabuan. Pero ang lahat po nang nilalaman ito ay nanggaling din sa abiso ng sanyan tipi ko natin at mga medical practitioners. So kasama na po kayo yan, docted, nag-abiso kasi Secretary Galvez na pinormulate itong mga planong ito. When you liken this strategy or the plan to a military tactic, the first and most important portion is finding the enemy. And in this case, the enemy that we face was a ghost enemy. Hindi natin nang hikita. So ang pinakayimportante magkarun tayo ng maggandang intel o lang paraan paro natin mahanap kung nasaan ito. Doon nga po mga pumasok po yung testing. Doon po nag-bigay ng abiso ang ating mga dalubhasa para malaman natin kung nasaan ito sa kit na to na hindi natin nang hikita. Kinakailangan magkarun tayo ng malagangap at may distribute natin sa buong kapuluan ang kapasidad natin na magkarun ng testing. Noong una, ang testing lang po ay nakakoncentrate sa our ITM to other facilities. Ang ating kapasidad po ay I think na sa 1,500 or less. So napakali-eat. A day sa isang araw. Kaya minabuti po natin na habang tinutulungan natin na itaas yung health system capacity sa pamamagitan ng isolation facilities at kapasidad ng mga hospital na tumanggap ng COVID cases. At the same time, ginawa din natin na makipagugnayan sa privadong sector. Kasi sinabi natin na hindi natin kakayani nito sa ating sarili lamang sa gobierno at ang public hospitals na sa ilalim ng DOH. So we saw and based on the discussions and the advice of many of our advisors at the NTF, we decided that the only way to bring forward a more robust testing structure was to be in partnership with the private sector na kung saan ang mga systeman nila at pamamaraan ay mas mabilis kesa sa gobierno. So there came in this T3 coalition at tinatawag natin, which was the partnership that we launched with the private sector and the big players in the private sector were here. Yung may mga nagbamayari na malalaking privadong hospital tulad ng MVP group tumali po dito ang ayala ng una rin sila ang naging leader ng coalition kasi ang ayala ay may health structure at may health personnel. Ganon din po ang mga malalaking laboratorio ang mga gumagawa ng gamot tulad ng United Labs at ang iba pa ng privado. Kasama rin po dito yung malalaking kumpanya tulad ng San Miguel na nag-donate ng mga kagamitan para mapalakas at makapacitate ang ating public hospitals. So at the same time that we were working to increase the testing capacity of our public health institutions, we were also doing the same thing from the private sector. So together we were working. So we targeted in the middle of June an approximate capacity of about 15,000, testing capacity everything. Middle of April? Yeah, middle of April. Towards the end of April yun ang hinahabul natin. Pero di natin nakaya yan at sinabi ng privadong sector. Let's aim for May. At the end of May we aim for 30,000. And the nice thing here is that at the end of May we actually were able to capacitate and increase the number of accredited laboratories during COVID testing to 32,000. Anuncio yan ni Secretary Roque sa kanyang preser nung minsan na sabi na 32,000 ng total capacity. Pero bagamat meron tayong total capacity na 32,000. Yung ating kapasidad ng actual na test na kinokondak sa bawat araw ay hindi pa rin tumas ng 30,000 na sa mga 12-15,000 lang. Kasi nagkaroon din po ng problema sa mga supply, yung mga reagents na tip na tawag at yung proficiency level ng mga nagmamayari o yung gumagawa ng testing sa mga laboratorio. So ma-raming nga tayong laboratorio, mataas nga ang testing kapas di pero humahabul yung kapasidad ng ating technicians na magsagawa nito ng testing. At ganoon din, nirarump-up din natin yung regularity ng supply chain kasi kinokulang pa. So napaka-sell ang problema po na kinayilangan ng partnership sa privadong sector. At mabuti naman po sa awa ng jos, naging maayos itong partnership na ito at nagtagumpay tayo na maiyangat ito. Kaya sa kasalukuyan ang inahabul natin po ng ging capacity natin on the daily basis at the end of June is 50,000. Yung ng ultimate target natin na within a day kaya nina natin magproceso ng lahat mga sampol ng mga nanggaling sa swab at makapag 50,000 test tayo a day sa buong kapuluan ng ating bansa. Kasi hindi lang naman po sa mainila ito. Nung una, sa mainila po naka-concentrate ang kakayahan ng testing. Pero ngayon paunty-unty na ipamahagi na po ang kapasidad na ito sa iba't ibang daku ng kapuluan lalo na yung malalaking syudan na meron tayong mga international gateways na tinatawag. So these are Cebu, Dawao, Sabuanga, Forwan and all the other major cities in the entire archipelago. I think na sa 48 na yata or 52 yung mga testing center natin sa buong Pilipinas. Mahabot na puton. Pero ang hinahabul po natin na docted ay hindi lang huyong bilang na yan kung hindi may yangat pa ito sa 70 plus or 80 plus testing centers. May mga nakapila pa rin huyata na nagpapa-approved. There are still testing centers that are being built and being awaiting approval by the RIPM. That's correct, Dr. Ted. Nagkikita natin araw, nagbimit lagi itong private public partnership, consortium or coalition na ito. At yun ang tinitingnan sa araw-araw na ibigigyan ba natin ng abiso lahat ng mga meron pang gaps na kailangan punoin tapos na papastrak ba natin yung processing ng kanilang accreditation. So sa bawat araw hun na dumadaan yan po ay nagiging bahagi ng one hour lang na meeting upang makita yung update para mapabilis natin yung pang accreditation sa iba pang laboratorio na nakapila. So very systematic. I think yung pinakamalake noong nag-present sa Senate was the Philippine Red Cross which was also a donation from the different private companies that you mentioned. So nagkarong sila ng laboratory na ang capacity, almost 45% ng current capacity ng Buong Pilipinas. That's correct. The Philippine National Red Cross was able to initially add 4,000 and then it became 8,000 tests a day. I think ngayon na sa 10,000 na rin sila. Great help. Malaking tulong ho yan pero tulad na sabi ko we are all catching up in terms of proficiency on the part of our medical technicians kasi ito po ay bagong problema na kinailangan ng panimbagong approach. So yung pag-detesting noong una manual tayo na nagsasakong pero nung kinalaunan madaming nag-donate sa public hospitals madaming nag-import at nagangkat ng automatic extractors na dinatawag. Automation, yes. Automation po ang pumasok at napabilis ngayon yung testing kaya nagkaroon po tayo ng ramp up testing capability noong end of May kaya naging 32,000 po yun. Our testing capacity has greatly improved since we started in March. We started with 3 molecular labs and 1,500 tests a day to today. We are doing almost 15,000-17,000 tests a day with many centers. Let's leave the issue of testing and let me ask you about the other. We'll find them positive so we have to get them away from the community and isolate them. The implementation was the use of big facilities, mega facilities that were converted to what we call temporary quarantine facilities. We identified COVID hospitals but what is interesting is we increased the health system capacity through building temporary quarantine facilities. Can you help describe the strategy and where are these centers saan-saanto at ano ang mga, sino ang nagpapatakbo sa ating temporary facilities? Thank you, doctor. Dinabi nyo yan. Isa pa dun sa public-private partnership na isinagawa ng national task force, hindi lang po sa testing pumasok pero may nauna pa po doon yung pag-create or pag-construct ng tinatawag ng isolation facilities or quarantine facilities. So itong isolation facilities ay naging napaka-importanting bahagi ng strategiya dahil kinayilangan natin magkaraon ng mapaglalag yan sa lahat ng makikita na nagdadalan ng sakit. So earlier on, I think that was March, the private sector and the big construction groups again led by the big players started working with government and primarily the DPWH and DOH and the AFP engineers to construct all of these isolation facilities. Ito po yung mga lugar na dyan dyan sa PICC, first World Trade Center, Resalt Coliseum, yung sports stadium natin malapit sa may lasal. Yung ultra dyan sa Pasig, pumasok din po at nag-ipagtulungan ang Iglesia ni Cristo at pinayagan nilang gamitin ang Philippine arena, Philippine sports arena sa may bulakan. Pero din po tayo dyan sa may southern area, sa may multi-lupa, sa fill invest. So overall, we were able to create increased bed capacity for isolating COVID patients. But the nice thing here is that we were not able to maximize or fill up these facilities with COVID patients. Kasi yung nagging kapasidad ng ating mga ibang hospital, nagging sapat na para matugunan po yung pangayilangan. May ilan lang po na ilagay sa mga facilities na yan. Pero nung kinalaunan, naging very vital structures ito dahil naging quarantine facility naman para sa nagdadatingan ating OFW family. Laki punga-tulong kasi yung OFW community natin nagdagsaan po ang balik sa Pilipinas at about 1,000 to 2,000 a day. And it filled up and congested all the accommodation facilities in Metro Manila abang sila'y naka quarantine. At dyan pumasok yung kabuan ng strategy natin. Kasi yung testing ngayon na iyangat na natin. Dated hinihingilang natin na magquarantine sila'y ng 14 days or more. Pero ngayon napapabilis na natin ang pag-uwi nila sa kanika nilang province sa pamaggita ng testing. So yung testing na sinasagawa pang dating sa airport, isaswab sila, papadalang po sa mga laboratorio ito para ma-processed. Paglumabas na po yung resulta, sila po ibigigyan ng green light para maka-uwi sa province. Kaya nga po, about 3 weeks ago, we started a massive return to the province effort sa NTF para yung mga naipon sa May Manila na 24,000 mahigit ng OFWs na nagsisi-uwiyan. Ay maka-uwi na sa kanika nilang mga proveet siya. And we were able to successfully do this led by the Secretary of Defense and Secretary Galvez. So it was not just 24,000 but we were able to bring home in the span of one week 29,000 overseas workers and repatriated Filipinos sa kanika nilang mga province siya. So napakalaking tulong mga pasilidad na ito at nung testing capacity na nagawa natin. Tapos, idag-dag pa po natin ito, nag-talaga rin po at nag-lagay rin po ng apat na tinatawag na mega-swabbing facility. So yung mega-swabbing facility po, dito po yung dinadala yung karamiyan sa mga nagdadating ang mga kapatid natin o kababaya natin upang makuha yung kanilang sample. So dito po sila si na-swab. Meron po tayo dyan sa Enduran, meron po sa Palasios Gobernador dyan sa May Manila, meron din po sa Clark ng itinayo. Isep pa po sa May Manila na hindi ko po maalala ko at nga yun. At yung mga airport, I think all terminals nagkaroon sila ng mega-swabbing center. Meron po, may swabbing center sila. Now I remember, the Moa Arena was converted into a mega-swabbing center as well. So all of these facilities. At tumulong yung ating mga coast guard, I think ang coast guard, ang major... Tama po. Ang coast guard, ang shang naging na talaga sa airport para iswab yung mga nag-uwiyan ating mga kababayan. Dito sa Enduran, yung Philippine Army, ang shang nag-bantay at naging swabbers natin. Dyan naman sa May Manila, ito i-tulungan sa DOH at sa Coast Guard din at sa iba pang mga gustong tumulong. So by and large, ito po ang tinasabi natin mga facilities at capacity na ito, ay naging napaka-importanting pillar doon sa ating pag-mitigate doon sa effects ng COVID at pag-arrest doon sa paglaki ng bilang na mga nakakasakit. General Padila, you've been telling us so many things that the National Task Force has been accomplishing. Many people probably who had stayed home during the ECQ have not even heard about all of this and now they're seeing that while they were at home that National Task Force was very busy ramping up testing, partnering with the private sector, building mega quarantine and building swabbing centers which service so many, tens and thousands of people. General Padila, may isopakang project very glaring and we hear all the time ito yung tinatawag na project arc ng private sector. Maybe you can tell us more about the project arc na ginawa ng group nila, Mr. Joey Concepcion. Ito lang ang project arc ay isang initiative o it was an initiative that was launched by the private sector. So the Presidential Advisor for Business, Mr. Joey Concepcion was the one who was leading this together with some medical practitioners who were part of the group. Initially ang kanilapong pinopush kasi nung unang mga buwan pa lang, linggo ng ating problema, wala pa po tayong ganaap na kapasidad para magkondap ng PCR test. So yung PCR test po ang nerekomenda ng DOH na maging gold standard sa testing kasi yun po ang nagsasabi kung isang tao ay may dinadalang COVID o wala. Pero nung unang mga linggo wala po tayong ganaap na bilang ng PCR test. So ang meron lang punon na naging available ay yung tinatawag na rapid antibody test. So ito po ay, ang imbis na sinaswab ang ilong at ang lalamuna ng bawa tao ang kinukuha po dito DOH. At tinating na sa DOH kung meron na pungang develop na mga antibodies o yung tinatawag natin mga sundalo sa log ng ating katawan o panglabanan yung mga sakit na kukuha natin. And specifically yung sakit na yun ay yung related sa SARS strain kung hindi ako nagkakamali. Correct. Pero yung tinatawag na rapid antibody test, ang karamihan ng sinasabi ng ating mga dalubasa ay mas mainam na gamitin na pang surveil lens lang o estimate ng bilang ng mga nagkakasakit sa isang kumunidad. So hindi ito naging mainam na batayan pero dahil wala tayong choice ang ating private sector players yun ang kanilang ginamit na tool para magkaroon ng pag-assess ng mga communities na siya naging bahagi ng kanilang pagkipagtulungan sa mga local government para malaman ng local governments natin. Lalo na itong Maynila, Quezon City at iba pang lugar na nakipagpartner sa kanila. So dun natin na lalaman at nakikita kung gano kabilis na kumakalat yung sakit sa mga communities na ito kaya kung may isang lugar na nagkaroon ng isang kaso at kita natin ay yung cluster na yan ay nagiging exponential ang growth. Nagkakondak po yung project art sa pagkipagtulungan sa LGU ng kanilang scan ng community para malaman nila kung may adami na taba talaga o kukonti ang may sakit kaya naging mag-molaking kabahagi rin ng ating pamahalaan at ng NTF itong project art dahil whole of society approach na po tayo sa fag approach ko sa problemang ito dahil hindi pwede hong magkanyakan niya. Kaya maski anumang ambag ang kaya ibigay ng pribadoong sector na ibigay nila at itong project art ay managging malaki ang tulong. Marami rin kung naging donors na nagbigay ng mga test kits na yan at patuloy na ginamit doon sa pag-assess ng mga communities lalo na yung mga densely populated areas natin na binanggit ko. Sa kamay nilaan, sa tunlo, sa Sampalok, sa queso city na nabalitaan natin at napagalaman natin na nagkaroon ng kanyakan niyang several days of lockdown para makondakitong mga rapid test na ito. So yun po ang naging tools natin para malaman at ganun din po sa Sibu, nagkaroon din po ng Ognaya and project art, ginamit din po ito. So nakikita po natin na pagkanagkaroon po ng mainam na co-operation at pagtulungan, aling sunod sa pagpapatupad ng bayanihan, marami po tayong magagawa. And they expanded the project art into a zero-prevalent surveillance project as well of Metro Manila. Sabi nga nila the way to check after an outbreak or an epidemic is how many have had the COVID-19 cases. Ginamit na rin ito, mag-uumpisan na rin huyata itong project na ito. Can you tell us about the zero-prevalent surveillance? Yes, docted. Sa I was saying, nung una naging bahagi natin sila sa pag-assess lamang. Pero ngayon yung zero-prevalent surveillance na yan ay nagiging importanting bahagi ng ating pag-assess sa buong Metro Manila laluna. Kasi tayo yung naging epicenter ng sakit at ang pinakamang vulnerable areas na mga densely populated ang siyang tinatarget ng pagsasagawa ng expanded test na ito for the use of rapid antibody tests. As I mentioned nga kanina, ito yung mas ma-inam na ginagamit pang surveillance ng mga community. I think they are also going to partner again with Sibu kasi ang Sibu ngayon nakikita natin may uptick ang cases tumataas. So kinakilangan natin magkaroon ng assessment dito para makikita natin ng inam kung gano kalaganap na yung pagkakalat ng sakit. So abangan natin yan at makikita natin po ang magiging risulta. So as we progress in the National Action Plan, we have moved from ECQ to Modified ECQ, mayon ay nasa GCQ na tayo or General Community Quarantine. Mayon nga yung prinapos ang National Task Force yung zoning approach to the no kasi parang ayon ay atang bumalek sa ECQ na kung nasa GCQ na. So can you explain the principle of the zoning approach to this COVID-19? Thank you, doctor. Itong mabutit binanggit nyo. Itong zoning approach ay isang masusing pag-aaral na ginawa ng ating Task Force. Kung pa paano natin mapatutupad yung tinatawag natin Delegate Balance between the economy and public health. So the ultimate objective actually of the National Task Force is to be able to get everybody to a sense of normalcy without sacrificing public health. And that sense of normalcy actually is for the benefit of the economy. Nakita natin ang laki ng ambag ng gobyerno sa pagtulong sa lahat na mga naging vulnerable o tinamaan ng husto ng pag-lockdown dahil di siya na kapaghanap buhay. So bag na ito na ipamahagi sa pamamagitan ng SAP, Social Immersion Program. Program, yes. Hindi who forever ito kasi yung ating kabanang bayan ay hindi ganoon na kapunok na kaya ng tuguna ng buong taon, lahat ng pangailangan ng tao. So there was a request on the part of our economic managers to gradually ease the economy so that we can at least earn from the taxes and from business to go on so that people can earn their livelihood and won't be dependent on government. So there came into the table of the NTF now that problem of how to strike that balance between easing the economy and at the same time ensuring public health safety. So doon pumasok yung tinatawag na zonal concept, yung zoning concept. So sinabi natin na isang lugar na maaaring madaming kaso pero hindi naman kung makalat pa sa ibang dakung lugar o keratig na lugar ay mainam na i-confine natin o i-lock natin, lock down natin para nang sa ganoon maprotectahan yung mga keratig lugar niya. So doon pumasok yung zonal. Yung zonal concept ay yung pag-ihewalay ng mga lugar na madaming kaso. Nagkaroon po ng parameter yan, yung merong 20 na kaso sa kada isang daang 1000 populasyon ay yung pinakakritikal na mga lugar sa ating categorized. At yung merong 19 or less na kaso ng COVID, kada isang daang 1000 populasyon, yung naman yung tinatawag natin cautionary areas. So meron tayong critical at sa kaya yung cautionary area na sa ating color coding yung critical ay red, yung cautionary area na sa orange. At yung paligid niya ay yellow and green. So yung yellow and green na area ang tinatawag natin na inner and outer buffer zone. So yung buffer zone natin tatawag natin ang buffer zone wala hong kaso ng COVID. So nakapaligid ito sa mga lugar na merong kaso pero siyisigaraduhin natin sa zonal concept na yun na hindi lalabas ng critical at ng cautionary area yung sakit nismo. So doon natin ngayon nilagay yung categorization ng e-sync natin natawag natin e-sq for sa critical and cautionary area tapos gradually paunti-unti niluluwagan natin para magkaraon ng activity sa economy doon naman pumapasok yung modified e-sq hanggang maging g-sq at maging modified g-sq. So yung apat na categorization na yun ay mga hakbang na maaring magpalit-palit, maaring bumalik, maaring musad sa more e-sq or maaring huming pit. Depende po sa lang mga kaso na kukuha sa lugar na yun. At dahil po sa zoning na yun nagkaroon din po ng degree of confidence yung ating national task force na i-download ang responsabilidad sa level ng mga baranggay at ng LGU. So yung LGU na po nagpapatupad ngayon ng kanilang selective lockdown. So pagsinabi po ng kanilang mga respective health officers na nandyan po sa LGU na ating surveillance dito ay tumalaki ang kaso at pumapatak sa mahinggit 20 kada isang dang population, hikakatingurize na po yung na critical area at maaring bumalik sa e-sq. Pero pag kumukonti ang kaso less than 20, 19 or less, puwapasok yan sa cautionary area na sa orange zone na tinatawag at maaring mag-gradually east yung community lockdown. Hanggang malibren na ito at mapumasok sa buffer zone at sa outer buffer zone. So eventually yung switching ng community quarantine ay dependent sa datos na nang gagaling sa mga lugar kung saan meron o wala ng COVID. So ito ay hindi po ura-urad ng decision na ginagawa ng bawat sinuman kung di decision na pinag-uusapan na mga dalubhasa sa lugar na yun in the person of their health officers at yung mga iba-papung mga chief executives na namumuno. So hindi basta-basta ho sa sabihin ng chief executive, lockdown tayo dito. Hindi po yun po ay nang gagaling sa recommendation ng health officers, na mga epidemiologist na nagbabantay at ganun din ng iba pang mga frontliners na tumutulong. And I heard they have to seek approval of the higher authority. So kung baka kung paranggay-captain, hindi basta pwede mag-lockdown, pa-alang kaki mayor. At yung mayor naman kung gusto niya mag-lockdown pa-alang siya sa regional office. And up the line. Up the line. Until the IATF. Until the IATF. Kaya kung ang mas-mismohong IATF pagkanag-husga na mag-bababan ng community quarantine at mag-tataas, pinapaalam pwumuna yan sa LGU para mismo ang LGU ay sasang ayun ba o hindi. Kasi kadalasan maaring sabihin ng IATF o ng NTF na luwagan na natin pero sasabihin ng LGU ay nakumag-muna po, deka lang humuna kasi na hirapan na kami, meron pa kami ng monitor dito. So, re-respetuhin hong ng NTF yan at saka ng IATF at imemmenti na yung gusto ng condition ng LGU kasi meron silang pinagbabasihan. Kaya yun po ay mainam na naging patakaran para hindi pa daus-daus o ura-urada ang decision making sa pag-de-declare ng mga lugar. At doon po mapasok yung concepto ng zoning concept kaya naging napaka-importating bahagi sa decision making ito. Napakaganda at sana makuha itong concepto na ito ng lahat ng LGU. Ang next question po sa inyo, magkakalombat ay nang second wave o talagabang flattened na natin yung curb, ano ba ang fearless forecast nyo general sa situation natin sa COVID-19? Napakaganda po nung tanong na yan Doctor. Ako yung hindi dalubhasa, hindi ako scientific o hindi rin ako epidemiologist. Pero ito po yung nakikita ko bahasi sa takbo ng tinatawag na behavior ng ating kabuang population. So sa sagutin ko hiyan sa pamamagitan ng conditionally, ang aking sagut po yan ay conditional. Ang tao po ang kabuwa ng ating mga kababaya ay magbabago ng kaugali anila sa pagtingin sa kanilang kabuwa ng kalusugan, magbabago po, baganda at gaganda yung ating takbo at bababa ng bababa yung kaso ng COVID. And hence, it will lead to more easing. However, if that behavioral change does not happen, kung hindi magbabago ang bawat isa sa atin, at hindi natin titignan yung importansya ng kalusugan ng bawat isa sa atin, patin ang sa ating mga pamilya, at yung ugali natin ay hindi natin babaguhin in terms of practicing the minimum health standards. Talalaki pa po yung kaso ng COVID at magiging, at kakalat ito at tataas yung bilang. So magluck down nulit, maghigpit kulit tayo para mapangalagaan natin yung kalusugan ng iba. But that again will be dependent on each and every one of us. So the short answer to your question, Doc, is actually it will depend. It depends. To the members of the population. So if you're serious of wanting to ease a little bit more, then serius sohin po natin yung pag-trat o sa sakit na ito. At gawin po natin yung mga hinihingisa atin ng ating mga dalubahasa. Nakunapakaganda. And thank you very much for gracing this program. We have learned a lot about what the National Task Force has been doing, what the National Action Plan is. Any final words, General? Salamat, Dokte. Again, thank you very much to you and the UP community for allowing me to be part of your program. It has been an honor and a privilege to take part. But this I have to say, contrary to the notion that many members of the population may have had initially that the government was not working. I have to tell you that it was actually working, it was doing its part. And they spent many sleepless nights just to conceptualize a plan that would eventually help the whole country. And this was actually the realization of the National Action Plan and the combined effort of both the public sector and the private sector in helping address the problem. So we have been able to mitigate a lot of potential bad consequences with the entry of COVID into our country. But because of the combined action of both the public and the private sector, as well as a whole-of-society approach in dealing with the problem, na-mitigate natin ito maski pa paano. So we will get critics, definitely, who will say that the lockdown was not beneficial, say that we did that soon enough. But just the same, there was activity, there was action on the part of government. And there were things that needed to be done that were done immediately by those who were tasked to do it. So post-COVID, malalaman po natin kung ano ang magingingusga ng kabuan ng ating mga kababayan. So tayo ba naging maina mga takbo? Hindi. Pero bayan large na kikita naman po natin. At may mga prueba naman po at mga datos yan. Yun po ang ating pagbabasihan. Thank you very much, General. With that, we see that the government actually during the ECQ period was actually very active and indeed implemented a National Action Plan. A National Task Force that implemented an increase in our testing capacity, an increase in our mega quarantine facilities, and even partnership with the private sector that led to our current situation of where we are now on general community quarantine. We now see that the onus on the battle against COVID-19 is now in the individual societies and local governments that will now implement the strict public health measures that will truly make us win and eliminate COVID-19 in our community. With that, thank you very much for viewing. This is Dr. Tadar Bosa, your host, and thank you from Health Issues in TV UP.