Republic Act No. 11469
Signed on March 24, 2020

Republic of the Philippines

Congress of the Philippines

Metro Manila

Eighteenth Congress

First Special Session

Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-third day of March, two thousand twenty.

[REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11469]

AN ACT DECLARING THE EXISTENCE OF A NATIONAL EMERGENCY ARISING FROM THE CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 (COVID-19) SITUATION AND A NATIONAL POLICY IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, AND AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES FOR A LIMITED PERIOD AND SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS, TO EXERCISE POWERS NECESSARY AND PROPER TO CARRY OUT THE DECLARED NATIONAL POLICY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Uploaded on: March 25, 2020

President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act, declaring state of national emergency and granting special powers to enhance crisis response against the pandemic disease for a limited period.

The law shall be effective for three months, or until the state of calamity is lifted. - Presidential Communications (Government of the Philippines)