DILG XII Regional Director Josephine Carbido-Leysa, CESO III has joined DILG Undersecretary Marlo I. Iringan, the Undersecretary for Local Government, as resource persons in a virtual meeting with the Committee on Local Government of the House of Representatives on July 21. The virtual meeting was called to deliberate on some major house bills creating legislative districts in Region XII, specifically in South Cotabato.

The National Task Force against COVID-19 Chief Implementer Sec. Carlito G. Galvez, Jr., assured the local chief executives of the provincial LGUs of Socsksargen and the city of Gen. Santos of the sufficient volume of Covid-19 vaccine in the coming months.

This was the commitment of Sec. Galvez, also named as the country’s vaccine czar, in a recent meeting with Region XII officials as he led of Coordinated Operations to Defeat Epidemic (CODE) Team in their visit to Gen. Santos City. He clarified that the distribution of the vaccines will be ’equitable’ and will not be based on ‘performance’ or how an LGU could speed up its vaccination scheme.