Luzon teachers, students affected

by ECQ all accounted for, DepEd

official assures 
By
 Samuel P. Medenilla
 -

March 27, 2020

https://businessmirror.com.ph/2020/03/27/luzon-teachers-students-affected-by-ecq-
all-accounted-for-deped-official-assures/

In a news briefing, Education Undersecretary Annalyn Sevilla said their monitoring

team as of Friday has yet to receive any report of any students from kinder to Grade
12, who were displaced because of the ECQ.

She, however, said they have an existing protocols for students who may need to be
brought home despite the prevailing 30-day ECQ wherein all public transportation is
suspended.

Sevilla said this includes ensuring the concerned students are free form novel
coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and escorting them so they could pass through
checkpoints.

ECQ adjustments
With the suspension of all classes during the ECQ, Sevilla reiterated DepEd has
already given the go signal to teachers to start computing the final grades of their
students even without their completion of their fourth quarter of the school year.

She said the final grade will be based on the performance of the student from first to
third quarter of the school year, as well as portions of the fourth quarter.
“We already released the  transmutation or equivalent grade of a child based on his or
her accomplishments,” Sevilla said.

She said the teachers will soon be informing their students if they have passed, or will
need to do enhancement, or remedial classes.

DepEd said the graduation, or moving up rites of the students, which was originally
scheduled on April has been postponed indefinitely due to the threat of Covid-19.

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“It may be rescheduled [by school division heads or superintendent] or they could
decide to forgo it, but it should go through the consultations with the parents,” Sevilla
said.

Allowed use
The education official also addressed concerns by some local government units
(LGU) on whether DepEd will allow its schools and facilities as temporary shelter, or
isolation rooms, for patients under investigations (PUI) or persons under monitoring
(PUM) due to Covid-19.

Sevilla assured DepEd  had  already signed the necessary memorandum with the 
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to implement the said
initiative, which they support.

However, she noted the LGUs would have to coordinate with DepEd officials and
meet the standards set by the Department of Health (DOH) for using DepEd including
ensuring it will be free from Covid-19 after they use it

Health Assistant Secretary Maria Rosario Vergeire (PNA / MANILA BULLETIN)

“Magandang indication [ito]. Pero kailangan din po ‘di tao making complacent,” Health
Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire told GMA News on Friday.

On Thursday, the DOH reported that the number of recoveries has reached 435, exceeding the
number of deaths at 362, for the second day.
Vergeire said patients who recover from COVID-19 usually take two to three weeks to
recuperate from the disease.

Meanwhile, Vergeire said the use of an antibody as treatment for COVID-19, as mentioned by
President Duterte, should undergo the review of the Food and Drug Administration.

President Duterte earlier said that he will lift the ECQ immediately once the country gets access
to such “killer antibodies” treatment for COVID-19.

“The experiments are getting into high gear baka makakita tayo ng lunas in a few days. Once
there is the — ‘yung maperfect nila (once they perfect it) and they are ready to market the
medicine, I will lift immediately — not a single — not even a single moment of delay,” Duterte
said during a public address Thursday night.

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