Go reminds Filipinos: Fight against COVID-19 is far from over

"Kung ano po ang gagawin natin sa susunod na mga araw, kung paano po tayo magtutulungan na maiwasan ang pagkalat ng sakit, kung paano po natin mas maisasaayos ang ating health facilities -- ito po ang tanging makakapagsabi kung kailan tayo makakabalik muli sa normal na pamumuhay at tuluyang matapos ang krisis na dulot ng COVID-19," the senator continued.

(Whatever we do in the next days, how we help each other avert the spread of disease, how we set up our health facilities - this is the bases of when we can return to normal life and finally end the crisis brought about by COVID-19). 

The senator also called on everyone to observe the spirit of bayanihan. 

"Magtulungan at magbayanihan tayong lahat (Let us all help each other.) While government maximizes its limited resources, a lot of our fellow Filipinos have also lost jobs, livelihood and savings. We are fighting for survival -- as survival is the name of the game here," he added.

Go assured that President Rodrigo Duterte is carefully balancing everything from the need for the state to ensure and protect the health and safety of its people to the need to gradually open up the economy.

"Halos walang tulog na ang Pangulo sa kakaisip kung paano malampasan natin sa lalong madaling panahon ang krisis na ito. Lahat na apektado -- kabuhayan, ekonomiya, pag-aaral, at iba pa. Maingat na binabalanse ng gobyerno ang mga ito," Go said.

(The president is losing sleep sleep thinking of how we can overcome this crisis. Everything is affected - livelihood, economy, education and more. The government is carefully balancing this)

President Duterte meanwhile approved the recommendations of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) on the respective quarantine levels of various areas in the country, noting continued significant numbers of COVID-19 infection cases in major areas, particularly Metro Manila and Cebu City.

The President reverted Cebu City to enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) status. This will be in effect from June 16 until June 30.