GenTri head welcomes joint national task force teams against COVID-19

By Ruel B. Francisco August 22, 2020 General Trias Mayor Antonio 'Ony' Ferrer shared the local government's support to the ...

By Ruel B. Francisco
August 22, 2020

General Trias Mayor Antonio 'Ony' Ferrer shared the local government's support to the different sectors severely affected by the pandemic during an interview with Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar. (Photo: Mark Bryan I. Lito, PIA-4A)

GENERAL TRIAS CITY, Cavite - Mayor Antonio 'Ony' Ferrer on Aug 13 led the city government in welcoming the joint national task force teams composed of the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 Coordinated Operations to Defeat Epidemic (CODE) Team, and the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID), in their move to support the local government units with high number of COVID-19 positive cases.

During his interview with the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar, Mayor Ferrer shared the local government's support to the different sectors severely affected by the pandemic.





The mayor said the local government had always been in coordination with the City Schools Division Superintendent and the Deparment of Education to stay on top of the situation especially for the gadgets acquisition for the online/blended learning modalities of education in the New Normal setting.

Meanwhile, Mayor Ony revealed that there were 22 Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the city that had closed due to the adverse effect of the pandemic.





In support of the struggling businesses in the city, "The local government had issued an ordinance to waive penalties and surcharges for the payment of business taxes, and the like, and the provision of free training programs for would-be entrepreneurs," said Mayor Ferrer.

He also mentioned that although the city have a limited agriculture sector because the city is primarily an industrial city, the city government in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture (DA) had distributed free vegetables seeds to barangays to promote backyard gardening for food security during the health crisis.

The economic recovery plan of the city government mainly relies with the continued operation of the two (2) industrial estates in the city, the Cavite Economic Zone and the Gateway Business Park.

Mayor Ony said, "We continue to have a dialogue with the employers of the locators in the industrial estates to inform us what support they need from the city government, like the establishment of halfway houses for their workers who need go home to their families and expose them to health risks from the COVID-19 disease." (Ruel Francisco, PIA-Cavite)