ICYMI: Senators: Gov’t ‘mishandling’ led to fast rise in PH virus cases
“Something is very wrong,” Senate President Vicente Sotto III said in a Viber message to the Inquirer.Asked to elaborate, Sotto cited “delays in actions and responses” of the government in tackling the virus, which first hit the country when a Chinese couple arrived on Jan. 21 from the city of Wuhan, in central China, where SARS-CoV-2, the infectious agent that causes COVID-19, emerged late last year.
Sen. Joel Villanueva was more blunt, saying the unsettling figures were a result of the government’s decision to reopen the “economy drastically even for nonessential sectors” like Philippine offshore gaming operators, or Pogos. More than 100 days after President Duterte imposed strict quarantine measures, Villanueva said there was still “no clear guidance on surveillance and epidemiological monitoring.”
Lacson assailed Mr. Duterte’s continued defense of Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, who had been blamed for the missteps in the coronavirus response as chair of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, which the senator said was “performing fairly well” despite the DOH’s “shortcomings.”
“Our socioeconomic context, particularly living conditions, as well as health system capacity, even prior to COVID-19, is different from Singapore. Please take note of that when we do our analysis,” the DOH said.
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