Adopting a similar ordinance from the City of Manila, Pasig Mayor Vico Sotto says people who harass suspected or confirmed coronavirus patients, health workers, and other frontliners will be punished. COVID19PH
patients and frontliners, as it began distributing the national government’s emergency subsidy to poor families.On Saturday morning, the local government began giving out P8,000 to each of the 93,000 Pasigueño families on the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s list of qualified beneficiaries of its emergency subsidy, to tide them over the economic crunch caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Pasig Mayor Vico Sotto anticipates discrepancies in the DSWD list because it was based on a 2015 census. He said persons who have died or have since moved out of Pasig will be deleted from the list – but that would only be found out during the distribution process. Sotto clarified that families enrolled in the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, the government’s conditional cash transfer program for destitute Filipinos, will automatically receive the national government’s emergency subsidy.Also on Saturday, the Pasig City Council passed an ordinance prohibiting the discrimination of people suspected or confirmed to have infectious diseases, and of workers in front line services catering to patients of such illnesses.
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