MANILA, Philippines— Even Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto believes that it is now time to “expand” the membership of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases and put a new man in the driver’s seat.
“Hindi lang change oil, change engine and driver na rin,” Recto said in a statement on Tuesday.
(Let’s not just change oil, but we also have to change the engine and the driver as well.)
“COVID is fast and furious while the vaccine rollout is slow and sputtering. These are signs of a government’s pandemic machinery in trouble and a nation in danger,” he stressed.
Some of his colleagues have already called for the IATF to be ab…
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