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including testing kits for the benefit of the masses, ventilators and the gear for the personal protection of the frontline health workers

In a statement, the party committee said that “the purpose of this unilateral ceasefire is to ensure and facilitate necessary, unhampered and immediate medical, health and economic assistance, support and movement of the people” and as a “gesture towards national unity.”

The lockdown has aggravated the Covid-19 problem by preventing testing and treatment of the sick and generating the hunger problem for millions of people who are prevented from earning a living

According to CPP’s statement on Tuesday found in the website of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), they are heeding the latter’s recommendation of a ceasefire, in accordance with the United Nations (UN) request for warring parties all over the world to stop fighting temporarily.

The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), a wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), is now recommending unilateral ceasefire in response to the United Nation’s call for global truce so all states can focus on the COVID-19 pandemic.

their truce order is not reciprocal to the GRP ceasefire declaration effective March 19 to April 15.

In response to the call of the United Nations Secretary General for a global ceasefire between warring parties for the common purpose of fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, the NDFP Negotiating Panel hereby recommends to the NDFP National Council and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) to issue a unilateral ceasefire declaration from 00:00H of 26 March 2020 to 23:59H of 15 April 2020

Sison said he hoped that National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and government panels would be able to sort things out for a resumption of aborted peace talks.

The NDFP and the broad masses of the people themselves need to refrain from launching tactical offensives to gain more time and opportunity to fight the Covid-19 pandemic and to look after the health and over-all welfare of the people in both urban and rural areas

the regime is quick to take advantage of the pandemic to grab more powers and more public money for its discretionary use