(PNA file photo by Robert Alfiler) MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte defended the five-day closure of cemeteries, memorial parks, and columbaria nationwide during Undas for the second year in a row amid criticism from some local government units (LGUs) outside Metro Manila. Duterte said the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management for Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) called the shots in deciding ways to prevent a potential super-spreader event of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) transmission in the country. "Ito ho ay talagang utos, mandato ng IATF at wala po tayong magawa at sumunod kasi sila yung may authority na magsabi ito 'sunod tayo, dito tayo' in (This is the order, the mandate of the IATF and we have no choice but to follow because they have the authority to say 'let's follow this, let's do this') so far as the fight against Covid," he said in a prerecorded public address aired Wednesday morning. He pointed out that the IATF-EID wa