“This is another addition to our overall COVID-19 response, especially in the component of preventing the spread of the virus in our city and our people,” Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano said.
Rubiano explained that all mainstream media entities and social media sites have assigned reporters and crew to cover the city on a daily basis to relay important information about Pasay City to its residents and the general public. The mayor said the group recently reported that “at least 127 journalists in 31countries have died due to the virus over the past three months, and several hundred media workers tested positive for the virus, and some media had to be temporarily closed.”
Meanwhile, markets and talipapa vendors and drivers of tricycles and pedicabs are also prone to the virus as well as to transmitting it to others because they likewise closely interact with their clients.