PANDEMIC KA LANG, I AM FILIPINO
COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a new strain of coronovirus called SARS-CoV-2. It affects all of us regardless of age, race, religion or country of origin. The series of infections worldwide forced the world under a state of pandemic. The Philippine government passed Republic Act 11469 or the "Bayanihan to Heal as One Act" to fight this pandemic, together with Duterte's executive orders in implementing community quarantine since March 17, 2020. In dealing with the pandemic , the Philippines has been adopting the way of tailoring the interventions into local settings, from quickly finding each infected person, tracing closed contacts and placing them under quarantine, to promoting basic hygiene measures to the public, such as frequent handwashing, cancelling public gathering, closing schools, delaying return to work, and implementing lockdown to the places where most of the people are infected. By adapting this response to our country, it m...