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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 4) A Manila hospital director said it would be better to keep NCR Plus under modified enhanced community quarantine to further reduce the number of COVID-19 cases.
Dr. Grace Padilla, medical director of the Sta. Ana Hospital in the City of Manila, also told CNN Philippines The Final Word that current community restrictions are effective. Sta. Ana Hospital has 79 people admitted for COVID-19, still far from its total bed allocation of 150, and no patients are waiting in line just to get a hospital bed. 79 is a big number, so we need to continue what we are doing right now, and I think this is effective and continue to be in MECQ, she stressed.
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“It is really a good thing for the people to witness that our very own President believes in the safety and efficacy of our vaccines,” he said in a press briefing in Manila, Tuesday, May 4.
Duque administered the Sinopharm vaccine to Duterte Monday, May 3. The Health chief explained that the Sinopharm vaccine was covered by the compassionate special permit (CSP) issued to the Presidential Security Group Hospital by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
“This was allowed by virtue of the CSP issued to the PSG Hospital. Sinopharm may only use the CSP from the FDA,” said Duque.
Frontliners, not Duque alone, are heroes senators By HANA BORDEY, GMA News
Published May 4, 2021 11:00am
Updated May 4, 2021 6:05pm For some senators, the frontliners, and not Health Secretary Francisco Duque III alone, are the heroes in the country’s fight against COVID-19 pandemic. The lawmakers were reacting to President Rodrigo Duterte’s claim that the government s COVID-19 pandemic response was doing well compared to other countries, at the same time hailing Duque as a hero. That s his opinion, to me, the frontliners are the heroes!” Senate Vicente Sotto III in a text message to reporters. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian aired the same sentiment, saying the government’s COVID-19 response was a team effort.