MANILA, Philippines — The administration of President Rodrigo Duterte has been “excellent” in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic — that is, excellent in mismanaging it, Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate said in a statement issued on Monday after the country tallied a million confirmed cases of the disease since February 2020.
Zarate used “excellent”with an ironic twist as it the same word used by presidential spokesperson Harry Roque in rating the administration’s COVID-19 response.
“We have been fighting the pandemic for more than one year. The number of Covid cases has reached one million and it continues to rise, but still the solutions of the Duterte administration have …
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