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Assistant Secretary Carlos Bernardo Abad Santos said because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a shift in the trajectory in terms of PDP implementation thus it is important to again sit down, assess, and update the plan.
“We started updating in 2019 and we were about to finalize the initial updating in 2020. However, when the pandemic struck us, we had to again do another round of planning and we had to consider the impact and the effects of the pandemic in updating and revisiting the PDP,” Abad Santos said.
Under the updated plan, the long-term vision remains the same and has become more pronounced with the emergence of the new threats.