As the national government is inclined to extend the enhanced community quarantine, Cavite Gov. Jonvic Remulla said that the province’s remaining funds for relief goods could last for only two more weeks. | cgonzalesINQ
He noted that many local government units would cancel their respective development programs for the next three quarters since most of the funds would be realigned to bankroll the emergency response program.
Remulla also reiterated the need to include the residents categorized as middle-class in the social amelioration package of the government, stressing that “everyone is hurting” due to the coronavirus pandemic. “There has to be a realization that the suffering of the poor is the same as the suffering of the middle class and we have to find a way to help them too,” he said.So far, only 35 percent of residents in the city have received cash aid from the government. The governor noted these are only the “poorest of the poor.”
“What we did not really is that the savings of the middle class have completely disappeared in the last three weeks and they are having a very very difficult time,” he said. The national government, through the Department of Social Welfare and Development, has started distributing cash aid to poor Filipino families as part of the social amelioration program. The cash aid ranges from P5,000 to P8,000 and aims to benefit around 18 million poor Filipino households.In his address to the nation on Monday night, President Rodrigo Duterte said he is inclined to extend the Luzon quarantine until April 30. The lockdown was originally set to end at midnight of April 13.
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