MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte’s “knee-jerk response” to recall his order allowing the dry run of face-to-face classes shows how the government remains “in-the-dark” in handling the pandemic, a teachers’ group said Sunday.
During a meeting with Cabinet officials and infectious diseases experts on Saturday, Duterte canceled the pilot implementation of face-to-face classes set for January due to the new COVID strain first detected in the United Kingdom.
“Last night’s Cabinet meeting exposed how ‘in-the-dark’ and ‘in-limbo’ the Duterte administration still is in terms of handling the pandemic, hence its knee-jerk responses of holdin…
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