(Speech of Chief Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo before the members of the Justice and Court Reporters Association, Justice Reporters Organization; officials and employees of the Judiciary on June 11, 2021.)
I am pleased to speak before you today my first chance to do so since my appointment as Chief
April 30, 2021 AFTER begging off in the initial round of the supposed pilot implementation of face-to-face (F2F) classes, Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Leonor Briones revealed that Davao Region is now reconsidering joining in the limited F2F classes.
Briones said during a virtual press conference on Friday, April 30, that Davao was supposedly included in DepEd’s plan to conduct pilot F2F classes for the whole month of January 2021 in select schools in areas declared as low-risk for coronavirus transmission.
President Rodrigo Duterte approved the plan on December 14, 2020 but later on ordered to cancel the plan due to the discovery of new variants of the coronavirus in the country.
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DepEd Undersecretary and DTFC Chairperson Alain Del Pascua issued memorandum no. 372 last April 19 said health authorities – including the Department of Health (DOH) – have “repeatedly emphasized that COVID-19 vaccination is one of the major strategies to complement the existing measures and practices to mitigate the spread and reduce morbidity and mortality due to coronavirus infection.”
Pascua added that the government’s directions pertaining to COVID-19 vaccination were laid out in the Philippine National Deployment and Vaccination Plan (NDVP) for COVID-19 vaccines and further elaborated in DOH issuances.
Related to this, Pascua explained that DepEd personnel “have three levels of participation” in the ongoing implementation of NDVP.
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