Interior Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya said he expected the distribution rate to reach 70 percent by Sunday.
Roque said the 5 million families would be included in the first tranche of the SAP cash aid.
“This would be implemented because the President knows how hard life is under the [enhanced community quarantine],” he said at the televised Laging Handa briefing. Malaya, speaking in the same briefing, said local government units were now scrambling to complete the distribution of the P5,000 to P8,000 cash aid.
“The [Department of the Interior and Local Government] is urging all local government units to take this seriously, and to keep on distributing the money because [Interior] Secretary Eduardo Año and [Social Welfare] Secretary Rolly Bautista would no longer give an extension,” he said.
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