LUCENA CITY —- The top provincial health official of Quezon province welcomed the decision of President Duterte to extend by another month the general community quarantine (GCQ) in the province, from May 1 to 31.
“We really need that GCQ extension,” Dr. Grace Santiago, head of the Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO), said in a television interview here on Thursday, April 29.
She said COVID-19 cases in the province were still rising, with a number of them in need of hospital confinement.
“Our hospitals were having a hard time. Those patients really need hospital interventions,” Santiago said.
She added that most suspected virus carriers have already been classified as…
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