He thanked Russia and China, and their respective presidents for offering provision of a vaccine and distribution of this vaccine to the public albeit it not being free (he mentioned how these countries had great expenditures for the vaccines). He’ll ask for a credit line for the vaccines if in case they’re expensive. All economies have “fallen flat” and are experiencing “economic hemorrhage” because many can’t work and are unproductive. It’s not his attitude to use government funds for his personal ventures and travelling in secret. He directly communicated his want for the public to stop accusing him of going to Singapore secretly and using government money to fund his travels. He repeatedly emphasized how it’s not his obligation to keep his travels a secret. If the country is in need and he is on leave for a private undertaking, he will assign the nation to people he thinks are dependable, and ultimately to the military.

A spokesperson enlisted all the communities under GCQ, MECQ, MGCQ, and ECQ, and what these quarantines entail. We need to open our economy once again and have a refresh. Refresh as in refresh the responses to COVID, better testing, more can be tested per test kit, house to house search for the asymptomatic and the government continuously carried out project code: swab those who have symptoms and separate those who are positive, implement large-scale tracing, use more facilities for more hospitals that can take care of individuals with covid, more beds to accommodate the critically afflicted, and have one hospital command center where one gets a referral where a couple countryman can go to be accommodated. He claimed that testing, tracing, isolation, and treatment are powerfully being implemented by the government and reminded everyone to take the precautionary steps to avoid being contaminated and contaminating.

Duterte stated the government’s want to protect everyone, however, the small businesses are barely even thriving. He stated requisites necessary/recommended for certain workers and the unnecessary requisites for certain workers. Afterwards, he pointed out how Filipinos daily encounter actions on the anti-drug movement. He cursed those advocating human rights, specifically the ones who emphasize the lives lost during the drug war because they accusingly only count the number of the dead and ignore the “social problem” on drug addiction. He advised them that the right thing for the human rights committee to do is to campaign how if one would use drugs, they will be killed or slaughtered. He stood firm on his view that drugs are drugs, a crime is a crime and stated how death penalty is rampantly implemented. He accused the media of imposing his message “if you destroy my country, I will order the military to kill you,“ instead of “if you destroy my country, I will kill you,” and that they destroyed the dreams of parents to see their kids graduates. He claims that he intends to keep that dream for the Filipino parents by continuing his plans for the movement against drugs. He’s questioning the productivity of the people opposing him on protecting our country and challenged them to compare their contributions for the nation to his contributions to the nation. 

Finally, he boldly stated that Senator Bong has a job in the senate and use the forum in the senate to expose wrongdoings and expose criminality. 

She emphasized how the ongoing testing is not yet equivalent to their capacity for testing and how easily accessible it should be. Specific testing areas are meant to be available for those who are around the area. She expressed the desire of the government to have COVID under control through aggressive tracing and aggressive testing. She informed that the community’s number of individuals affected by COVID are relatively low, but she asserts that it should be kept that way and adequate testing should be maintained.

He thanked the militaries for their support to the US, the government staff and doctors. They will eventually end up with a cure, a vaccine, and therapeutics very soon and successfully completely end the pandemic.

During the press briefing, he was emphasizing how his administration has been accomplishing more compared to the previous administrations. They are trying to bring the testing onsite to hasten the process.