MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Leni Robredo has advised the national government to set actual targets to gauge how the country’s COVID-19 response is faring, amid a one-week extension of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) over Metro Manila and nearby areas.
Robredo lamented during her Sunday radio program that the COVID-19 response plan tends to be too general — or focused on larger concepts like tracing, early detection, treatment.
What the government should do, she said, is to place objectives or scorecards which would set a goal that the country needs to achieve. As an example, Robredo said that when officials announce that tests would be increased, it should be a…
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