The Interagency Task Force for the Management of Emergency and Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) has approved the Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM)'s Demographic Vulnerabilities Tool (DVT), developed as a
The Interagency Task Force for the Management of Emergency and Infectious Diseases has approved the Commission on Population and Development ’s Demographic Vulnerabilities Tool , developed as a “new weapon” against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“While we learn more every day about COVID-19 and know where is it spreading, we are always one step behind, because it takes two weeks to manifest itself in terms of confirmed cases,” POPCOM Undersecretary Juan Perez said. With the IATF-EID approval, POPCOM will provide all of the 42,044 barangays nationwide vital information on their vulnerabilities that are based on living spaces and the number of senior citizens living in COVID-19-susceptible conditions.
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