'We are being fooled': Villanueva questions DOH COVID-19 numbers

'Mas kapani-paniwala pa ngayon 'yung mga palabas sa perya kaysa sa mga binibigay sa'ting reports,' says Senator Joel Villanueva.

," Villanueva said in a message to reporters on Thursday night.The senator added,"38,000 recoveries in one day only shows there's a problem with data interpretation. Worse, it's giving people a false sense of security. Instead of mass testing, it became mass recovery."," Villanueva added.

The agency also reported a record 38,089 new recoveries in a single day. It brought the country's total recovery count to 65,078. The agency started a"COVID-19 Surveillance and Quick Action Unit" in July, which validates and reconciles local and national data through its"CovidKaya" platform.

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