NGAYON pa lang ay inihayag na ng Joint Task Force COVID Shield na kanilang sinusuportahan ang panukalang ban o pagbabawal sa pangangaroling ng kabataan ngayong Yuletide season sanhi ng nararanasan pa rin pandemya dala ng coronavirus sa bansa.

Ayon kay P/Lt. General Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, commander ng JTF COVID Shield, inaantabayanan na nila ang magiging desisyon ng Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) kaugnay sa panukalang caroling ban.

“Caroling has always been part of the Filipino tradition, I believe each and every one of us has his or her funny and meaningful stories of caroling especially when we were children. This is what makes the Christmas of every Filipino memorable and exciting one,” ani PLt. Gen. Eleazar.

“But the situation is currently different. We are facing a serious threat of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and we in the JTF COVID Shield believe that it is in the health interest of everybody if we could just stay home and enjoy the Yuletide season with our family,” pakiusap ng heneral.

Nabatid na maging si Secretary of the Interior and Local Government (SILG) Eduardo Año, na siyang vice chairman ng National Task Force on COVID-19, ay sinusuportahan ang caroling ban ngayong taon.

Sa pakikipag-ugnayan ng JTF COVID Shield kay Philippine National Police Chief General Camilo Pancratius Cascolan, inatasan ni PLt. Gen. Eleazar ang lahat ng police commanders na makipag-koordinasyon sa kanilang nasasakupang Local Government Units (LGUs) kaugnay sa caroling. (JESSE KABEL)