MANILA, Philippines — Senator Joel Villanueva urged the Inter-Agency Task Force for Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) to expand its enhanced community quarantine guidelines for NCR Plus and come up with an “urgent plan’ to help decongest the hospitals that have been at the mercy of COVID-19.
Villanueva, chair of the Senate Labor Committee, said the initiative to help hospitals was absent in the IATF guidelines for the one-week ECQ imposed on NCR Plus—Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal—that was announced Saturday.
“Hospitals are hanging ‘No admission for COVID patients’ signs. Sa isang pasyenteng naghihingalo, ito na po ang pinakamasakit mong mababasa. …
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