State of National Emergency.
Section 2
SEC. 2. State of National Emergency. - Presidential Proclamation No. 922, s. 2020, was issued declaring a state of public health emergency throughout the Philippines due to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Thus, Republic Act No. 11469 or the "Bayanihan to Heal as One Act" was enacted declaring a state of national emergency over the entire country to control the spread of the disease. However, the rise of confirmed cases of COVID-19, and the serious threat to the health, safety, security, and lives of our countrymen persist. The severe disruption to livelihood and all other productive activity were reflected in the country's economic contraction during the first semester of 2020. In view of unabated spread of the COVID-19 virus and the ensuing economic disruption therefrom, the existence of a continuing national emergency is hereby affirmed in this Act.