MANILA, Philippines — Senator Grace Poe pressed the government’s pandemic task force to provide more resources for COVID-19 relief to Iloilo and other high-risk areas outside Metro Manila to address the influx of patients.
In a statement on Monday, Poe called on the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases to immediately act in addressing the “resource shortage” in Iloilo as well as in areas bearing the brunt of the virus surge.
At the same time, she said these high-risk areas should get more vaccines to arrest the spread of the virus and ease the pressure on the health systems of local government units.
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