“We should utilize social media in terms of reporting and contact tracing, where we have miserably failed,” Defensor said. | NAMercadoINQ
Defensor added that even in poor communities in urban and rural areas, people use mobile phones, Facebook, and other social media to communicate with their relatives and friends here and abroad.
The lawmaker likewise appealed to families of those who tested positive for the virus and who are on home quarantine or those who are recovering in their homes not to go out for 14 days to avoid spreading the virus just in case they got infected. “The health system was on the brink of collapse when President Duterte heeded the call of our medical workers for a timeout to ease pressure on it and to allow them some rest,” Defensor said.As of August 6, there are
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