Ozamiz Politics in the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic

Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 30 (4):191-194 (2020)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

While Ozamiz city’s politics is in its early stage of recovery from its previous political deterioration proliferated by its former ruling power predators, the city’s politics is yet again put to the test with the advent of a global pandemic. As the disease progresses in the Philippine archipelago over the past five weeks some 5, 453 Filipinos are infected, with 349 deaths and 353 recoveries; such are the numbers even if the entire country is in strict community lockdown. The local government unit headed by the city Mayor, in coordination with the provincial government in fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic has placed the entire city under community quarantine. Nonessential establishments are closed; however, grocery stores, pharmacies and the city’s public market remain open; classes in both public and private institutions in all levels and school functions are suspended. Under the city’s community quarantine memorandum 24 hours of curfew for students and high risk adults is implemented; everybody are encouraged to stay in their respective houses and ration of food packs are distributed for every household; checkpoints are placed in national roads in the entrance and exit of the city in order to limit engagement from the people outside Ozamiz; social distancing policy is strictly implemented. The radical means the city has undertaken is directed towards stopping any possibility of contagion in the city. However, with the majority of the population being poor, problems of subsistence in the midst of vast work displacements and the lack of income among the city’s poor arise. It is for this reason that the paper is intended to assess in particular the program and the steps undertaken by the local government to answer the cries of the poor during this difficult time.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,616

External links

  • This entry has no external links. Add one.
Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Ethics of care and Philippine politics during the COVID-19 outbreak.Rogelio P. Bayod - 2020 - Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 30 (3):69-75.
Social Cohesion, Trust, and Government Action Against Pandemics.Marlon Patrick P. Lofredo - 2020 - Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 30 (4):182-188.
Role of information and communication technology during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Dennis Alfaro - 2020 - Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 30 (4):195-196.
The COVID-19 containment in Vietnam: What are we doing?Toan Luu Duc Huynh - 2020 - Journal of Global Health 10 (1):010338.
Impacts of COVID19 Pandemic on Care of the Patients with Cancer.Esra Bilir - 2020 - Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 30 (3):111-113.
Cybercrime pandemic.Marites V. Fontanilla - 2020 - Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 30 (4):161-165.
The Economics of COVID-19 in the Philippines.Leandro S. Estadilla - 2020 - Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 30 (4):178-181.
Health care in India in the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic scenario.Dhastagir Sultan Sheriff - 2020 - Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 30 (3):91-92.

Analytics

Added to PP
2020-05-07

Downloads
2 (#1,635,221)

6 months
1 (#1,042,085)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Gerry Arambala
La Salle University

Citations of this work

Enrique Dussel’s Philosophy of Liberation: Philosophical Reflections at the time of the COVID-19 Global Pandemic.Menelito Mansueto - 2020 - Social Ethics Society Journal of Applied Philosophy 6 (Special Issue):173-208.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references