THE Department of Health (DOH) is not ruling out the possibility that the May 9 polls will be postponed in areas where there is a high number of coronavirus disease (Covid-19)...
THE Department of Health is not ruling out the possibility that the May 9 polls will be postponed in areas where there is a high number of coronavirus disease cases.
"The question is: is it possible to postpone the elections? Yes, of course! It is possible if there are very high number of cases in specific areas," said Duque. "That is always a possibility, but we will stick to our Alert Leveling System," said Duque while citing the two-week growth rate, average daily attack rate, and healthcare utilization rate as basis.
"We have some areas where there are positive one-week growth rates. But these are still not enough for us to escalate to Alert Level 2," he said.
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