LGUs told to prepare vs. Monkeypox disease

THE DEPARTMENT of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has urged all local governments to undertake proactive measures against Monkeypox in an effort to prevent the spread of the virus following the country’s first case of the zoonotic disease.“While everyone is assured that our public health surveillance systems are able to detect and confirm monkeypox cases, all LGUs are nonetheless called to carry out measures in close coordination with the Department of Health (DOH) in stemming the spread of this new virus,” said DILG Secretary Benjamin Abalos, Jr.Abalos said that while the...