MANILA, Philippines — “Un-Christian” was how presidential spokesman Harry Roque on Monday merely dismissed — and did not answer — a question about how he was able to quickly obtain a hospital room for his COVID-19 treatment when ordinary Filipinos are forced to wait in tents outside medical facilities and endure long queues for space in supposedly crowded Metro Manila hospitals.
The COVID-positive high-ranking Palace official said in a briefing that he started his isolation at home but had to be rushed to the hospital after his oxygen level dropped to 90.
“With all due respect, I think that’s an un-Christian question,” was Roque’s reply to a query posed by a reporter that w…
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