MANILA, Philippines–Team Philippines sees a bright new hope amid the coronavirus pandemic that put everything on hold the past year.
With quarantine cases continuing to go down, the Philippine Sports Commission is hoping to return national athletes training for Tokyo and Vietnam to its facilities by April 1.
PSC-managed Rizal Memorial Sports Complex and Philsports, which were converted into quarantine facilities by the national government last year, are almost empty of Covid-19 patients.
“In Manila I think there’s no more patients,” PSC chair Butch Ramirez told the Inquirer. “There’s still a few in Philsports. But we are preparing for April 1 resumption of training there.”
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