“Abandon the “one size fits all” policy. Stop using “bazooka” and “shotgun” solutions to these COVID-19 situations requiring calibration, logic, reason, and plain common sense,” said Tulfo.
The gruesome murders of mother and son Sonya and Frank Anthony Gregorio should not be treated as an “isolated case”, but rather a “symptom of an institutional ill”, Muntinlupa Representative Ruffy Biazon said.
“Actually, ‘yung (the reimposition of another national) lockdown is a possibility. I said we’re making some projection. But if the severity in numbers would demand that we take corrective measures immediately, then we just have to go back to lockdown,” Duterte said.
Senator Francis Pangilinan called on the government to immediately impose a travel ban on countries that were monitored to have the new coronavirus variant, and not wait for a local transmission before doing so.
The local government unit of Bataan will soon have an isolation center of its own with the ongoing construction of a facility adjacent to the Bulwagan ng Bayan.
The Department of Health and the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases will discuss travel restrictions following reports of detection of United Kingdom’s new variant of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in more countries.
"You have faced enormous risks and worked beyond the call of duty to ensure the health and safety of our people during these difficult times. You are all heroes in the truest sense of the word," Galvez stated.