DESPITE the declaration of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) over the Covid-19 pandemic, all academic activities in the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) remain on track.
Captain Cheryl Tindog, PMA spokesperson, said cadets are confined inside Fort del Pilar in Baguio City but all academic activities have pushed through unhampered through online intervention.
She added that starting this week, the cadets will take their final examinations.
PMA is still suspending the weekend leave, privileges and official businesses outside the academy including crowd drawing activities as a proactive measure to safeguard the health and safety of cadets and the general public from Covid-19 threat.
By virtue of the National Defense Act, PMA is a military training institution that has a specific mission concerning national security recognized by Commission on Higher Education (CHED) as a tertiary education institution, but it is being administered by the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
Tindog added PMA ensures that it will abide by all the regulations of the ECQ with the academy on alert for other possible ECQ-related missions of AFP as directed by higher headquarters.
In the City, Mayor Benjamin Magalong earlier extended class suspension in Baguio through an executive order halting school until May 30 after meeting with representatives from the Department of Education (DepEd), CHED and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda), which all agreed to heed the directives of the city.
The mayor ordered classes for all levels in public and private schools, as well as other institutions of learning suspended until the end of May, subject to guidelines and directives that may be released by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases or the Covid-19 Task Force.