Duterte to deliver next speech from Davao City on Monday

FILE PHOTO — President Rodrigo Roa Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) core members at the Malago Clubhouse in Malacañang on August 2, 2020. KING RODRIGUEZ/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte is set to deliver his next public address from Davao City on Monday, Malacañang said.

The President is also scheduled to meet with some members of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Diseases there, said presidential spokesperson Harry Roque.

“Ang susunod po na broadcast natin ay sa siyudad ng Davao. Magkakaroon po ng pagpupulong ang Presidente kasama po ang mga piling mga myembro ng IATF sa araw ng Lunes,” Roque said in an online briefing.

(The next broadcast is from Davao City. There will be a meeting with the President along with select members of the IATF on Monday.)

The President’s scheduled public address on Monday, August 10, will come a week before the modified enhanced community quarantine placed over Metro Manila, Rizal, Bulacan, Cavite and Bulacan lapses on August 18.

Duterte, in his previous speech, heeded the medical frontliners’ call for a “timeout” to recuperate from exhaustion and to refine the government’s strategies against the pandemic.

But in the same speech, Duterte also told frontliners not to “demean” the government and dared them to stage a “revolution” against him after they went public with their criticisms to the government’s COVID-19 response.

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