Authorities promised to revisit and take new steps to arrest rising COVID-19 infections, but insist that the return to MECQ does not mean an admission of failure in the government's response
[We are recalibrating and reconstituting our plans because these are rolling plans]," National COVID-19 task force chief implementer Carlito Galvez, Jr. said, in line with the call made by health workers for the state to review its infection control mechanisms. as the government seeks to slow down COVID-19 infections.
She added that the agency will sit down with the Alliance of Healthcare Professionals this week for their inputs on the state's new anti-COVID-19 strategies, which they hope to finalize on Friday. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque stressed anew that current parameters merited keeping these areas under the more relaxed general community quarantine, but the call made by frontliners spelled the difference.For the next two weeks, government will tap medical teams from the regions and bring them here to man hospitals in the greater Manila area to allow frontliners here to rest and breathe after nearly five months of treating thousands of patients.
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