{"id":261895,"date":"2020-07-16T04:43:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T08:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=261895"},"modified":"2020-07-16T04:43:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T08:43:20","slug":"prrd-likely-to-certify-as-urgent-center-for-disease-control-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/16\/prrd-likely-to-certify-as-urgent-center-for-disease-control-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"PRRD likely to certify as urgent Center for Disease Control bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_261896\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261896\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PRRD-likely-to-certify-as-urgent-Center-for-Disease-Control-bill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-261896\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PRRD-likely-to-certify-as-urgent-Center-for-Disease-Control-bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PRRD-likely-to-certify-as-urgent-Center-for-Disease-Control-bill.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PRRD-likely-to-certify-as-urgent-Center-for-Disease-Control-bill-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PRRD-likely-to-certify-as-urgent-Center-for-Disease-Control-bill-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PRRD-likely-to-certify-as-urgent-Center-for-Disease-Control-bill-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-261896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) core members at the Malago Clubhouse in Malaca\u00f1ang on July 15, 2020. SIMEON CELI JR.\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo R. Duterte will likely certify as urgent the proposed measure seeking the establishment of the Philippine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Malaca\u00f1ang said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost likely\u00a0<em>po<\/em>\u00a0(it will happen),\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a virtual presser when asked if Duterte would certify as urgent a bill creating the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Roque\u2019s statement came amid the country\u2019s continuing battle against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).<\/p>\n<p>He also made the remark after Health Secretary Francisco Duque III proposed the creation of the Philippine Centers for Disease Control, which will create systems for disease control and prevention.<\/p>\n<p>Duque earlier backed the passage of House of Representatives Bill (HB) 6096 filed by Albay Rep. Joey Salceda.<\/p>\n<p>HB 6096 seeks the creation of the country\u2019s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which will serve as a separate agency under the control and supervision of the Department of Health but with broader policymaking, implementation, surveillance, disease control, and prevention powers.<\/p>\n<p>Under the bill, the proposed center will serve as the principal agency tasked with developing and applying communicable disease control and prevention initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed Center for Disease Control and Prevention will also be responsible for controlling the introduction and spread of infectious diseases.<\/p>\n<p>It will also provide consultation and assistance to other nations and international agencies to assist in improving their disease prevention control.<\/p>\n<p>Covid-19 has so far infected 58,850 individuals in the country.<\/p>\n<p>About 20,976 Covid-19 patients have already recovered while 1,614 others have died of the highly contagious disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo R. Duterte will likely certify as urgent the proposed measure seeking the establishment of the Philippine Center &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":261896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ruth-abbey-gita-carlos","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261897,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261895\/revisions\/261897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}