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As part of the government’s “exit plan” from the pandemic, Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion stated Monday that the country might leave the alert level system in March or April this year.

Despite the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) epidemic, Concepcion claimed the private sector will devise a strategy to ensure a safe reopening of the economy.

During the Laging Handa public briefing, he declared, “The aim is to get to a point where there are no more alert levels.” “I believe we will get there eventually.” I believe we will be ready to move out of alert levels by the end of March, or possibly April.”

In the 22 months after the epidemic began, he added, both businesses and consumers have adopted basic measures including wearing face masks, cleaning, physical separation, and isolation when symptoms are manifest.

“These areas that have been closed for the previous 22 months must be revived,” Concepcion remarked.

Chua stated the private sector suggestion is a “really nice idea” and that the government will consider it during a press conference held by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).

Despite Chua’s agreement that the country should transition its thinking from pandemic to endemic, he believes the present warning level system should be kept in place since “we are not yet entirely out of the pandemic.”

“For the time being, since we are not fully out of the pandemic,” he said, “I believe we should retain this: I believe we have proven the alert level system works by prioritizing or managing the risk at the highest risk sources while allowing the rest of the people to move around safely and return to work.”

Concepcion and OCTA Research Fellow Fr. Nicanor Austriaco requested the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) and the National Task Force Against Covid-19 (NTF) to start the government’s exit plan from the pandemic earlier this year.

In a letter to the IATF and NTF, they wrote, “It is time for the national government to transfer our people from a pandemic to an endemic mindset.”

Concepcion also emphasized the importance of Covid-19 vaccines, including booster doses, in providing protection against the infection for Filipinos.

He went on to say that the corporate sector is helping with vaccination efforts by immunizing workers and their families, as well as providing booster doses.

Some of the Covid-19 vaccinations acquired by the commercial sector were also donated to local government units in need of the vaccines.

“We have to accept the fact that we must go on,” he remarked.

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