Gov’t info officers tackle Covid-19 efforts in virtual town hall

Cualoping also noted the importance of providing the ”most accurate information from the most reliable sources.” (PNA file photo)

MANILA – The national and local governments can now follow an omnibus communications plan to address disinformation and provide accurate information amid the coronavirus pandemic, an official of the Presidential Communications Operations Office said Wednesday.

“We provided an omnibus communications plan for the whole government to follow. There is a lot of misinformation and disinformation happening during this crisis, and it spreads and mutates like the virus,” PCOO Assistant Secretary Mon Cualoping said during the government’s first virtual town hall meeting with information officers from various local government units.

Cualoping also noted the importance of providing the ”most accurate information from the most reliable sources.”

“To heal, recover, and rise as one, we, information officers, should communicate as one,” he said.

The PCOO and the Department of the Interior and Local Government hosted the country’s first virtual town hall meeting along with local government units and the members of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID).

Some 300 LGU information officers nationwide joined the virtual town hall meeting, which aims to discuss recent updates and guidelines related to the implementation of the community quarantine in both national and local levels.

“The town hall is planned to be done regularly as we enable our LGU in the Covid 4K communication imperatives on Kalusugan, Kabuhayan, Kaayusan, and Kinabukasan,” Cualoping said.