The government is paying Dennis Uy-led logistics company 2GO Group, Inc. at least P35 million for the use of its two passenger vessels as floating quarantine hospitals for persons suspected of having the new virus that causes COVID-19. | DJEsguerraINQ
In this file photo, President Rodrigo Duterte rings the bell at the Philippine Stock Exchange in the financial district of Makati, suburban Manila on July 11, 2017, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the listing of petroleum company Phoenix as the company’s president and CEO Dennis Uy looks on.
The government has converted several massive convention centers and sports facilities into isolation sites as hospitals and health care centers struggle to accommodate more COVID-19 patients. Duterte signed into law last month Republic Act No. 11469, or the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act, authorizing him to exercise additional powers “necessary and proper” to fight the spread of the highly contagious respiratory ailment COVID-19.
Section 4 of the law authorizes the President to direct the operation of any privately-owned hospitals and medical and health facilities including passenger vessels and other establishments to house health workers; serve as quarantine areas or centers; and public transportation to ferry health, emergency, and frontline personnel and other persons; among others “when the public interest so requires.
Aside from state-owned facilities and passenger-vessels, the government likewise tapped private hotels as quarantine facilities for repatriated Filipinos abroad.
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