MANILA, Philippines — Health Secretary Francisco Duque III noted that the country was able to reverse the increasing trend of COVID-19 cases starting September last year until early February, amid claims that the situation in the country did not change much after the timeout requested by health workers in August.
“As in the first peak in August of 2020 last year, we were successful in reversing the trend, beginning September, October, November. In fact [in] November, December, January, and up to about two weeks of February, we were able to achieve a plateauing of cases until the last week of February and up to March when we started seeing a spike in the number of cases,” Duque t…
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