GENERAL SANTOS CITY — Filipinos’ penchant for celebrating family milestones may just be putting everyone at risk of contracting the dreaded COVID-19, health authorities here said.
This is the reason officials of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on COVID-19 have been eyeing tighter health and safety measures, including the revocation of permits earlier issued to establishments for mass gathering purposes, after the daily new cases of COVID-19 registered a spike here in the last four days.
In a meeting on Friday, the IATF said the sudden surge in daily cases had been traced to family gatherings, which included celebrations of Mother’s Day, birthdays, weddings, baptism, and oth…
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