Posted at 08/04/20 12:34 PM
President Rodrigo Duterte’s remark that nurses should just join the police force if they wanted higher pay is “irrational” and an “evasion of responsibility”, a leader of health workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic said Tuesday.
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Companies likely have contingency plans to survive another lockdown but the government should be able to assist workers who would jobs or income as restrictions tighten anew, a group of employers said Tuesday.
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Authorities should ditch a rule for operators of public utility vehicles to install plastic sheets between passengers because these might stoke the spread of the novel coronavirus, a doctor said Monday.
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Philippine Airlines and AirAsia said Monday they were waiting for the guidance from the country's coronavirus task force on how flights would proceed following the reimposition of modified enhanced community quarantine in Metro Manila.
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Medical frontliners gave suggestions on the country’s pandemic response to “help” authorities and not to “demean” the government as claimed by President Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine Medical Association said Monday.
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The Department of Health should test patients for the novel coronavirus before deeming that they have gotten well, a senator said Friday, after the agency drew flak for a 38,000-case single-day jump in its tally of recoveries.
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The Department of Health said Friday it was seeing “big hope” in increasing recoveries from the novel coronavirus, even as the total COVID-19 cases of the Philippines exceed that of China, and the agency’s pandemic reporting drew criticism.
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The Department of Health should monitor coronavirus patients who are among the 38,000 record high single-day recoveries that it announced this week, a former government adviser said Friday.
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Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian said Friday he gave up his membership at the Senate justice committee so that his colleague Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa could join deliberations on the revival of the death penalty.
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Sen. Sonny Angara on Thursday said he needed "compelling evidence" that the death penalty could deter crimes and that "miscarriages of justice" could be avoided before he votes for its revival, which President Rodrigo Duterte sought again this week.
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