MANILA, Philippines — Prevention, not contact tracing, is the weakest link in the country’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said Thursday citing the number of people still violating health protocols.
This, despite Malacaang and the country’s tracing czar Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong having previously admitted that contact tracing is the “weakest” point in the government’s response against COVID-19.
“Kami po sa DILG have never believed na ang ating contact tracing is the weakest link. Actually, we disagree,” DILG spokesperson Jonathan Malaya said in a televised briefing.
(We, in the DILG, have ne…
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