MANILA, Philippines — Sorsogon Gov. Francis Escudero has urged the government to admit its shortcomings in managing the COVID-19 pandemic response because doing so may just be the first step in solving the myriad of problems now faced by the country.
Escudero pointed out in a Facebook post on Friday that the Philippines has surpassed the combined tally of COVID-19 cases in entire Southeast Asia on Thursday. Then today, March 26, the former senator said it got even worse with 9,838 new infections.
He also noted that Asean countries are being affected by the same coronavirus variants of concern as well as beliefs of lockdown fatigue, but the neighboring nations appeared to be manag…
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