(MANILA BULLETIN File Photo)
“PRC members should be considered as essential workers since they supervise professional board examinations. Once they are vaccinated, they could do their job in supervising our countrymen who take their examinations),” Go said in Filipino.
As chairman of the Senate Committee on Health and Demography, Go said that he recently discussed with vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez, Jr. and Health Secretary Francisco Duque III the concerns of PRC regarding the conduct of upcoming professional board exams amid the varying community quarantine restrictions imposed in different parts of the country.
“Our movements are limited to contain the spread of COVID-19. But we need to consider the needs of the profession of our countrymen who could lose their if the operation of PRC is delayed,” he said.
Health Chief Duque backs extended MECQ in NCR Plus bubble
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 26) Health Secretary Francisco Duque III believes the modified enhanced community quarantine status over Metro Manila and nearby provinces should be retained until May, his office confirmed on Monday.
He said in a television interview that the lockdown should not be relaxed for one or two more weeks to help ease the burden on healthcare capacity
Health Department spokesperson Maria Rosario Vergeire said Duque and the entire DOH support the extension of the MECQ over Metro Manila, Cavite, Laguna, Rizal, and Bulacan when it expires on April 30.
Published April 26, 2021, 5:15 PM
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Monday, April 26, has called on nurses and doctors to work in hospitals in the country as there is a need for more healthcare workers to man medical facilities amid the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
A medical worker walks on the aisle of the new isolation facility at the Eva Macapagal Terminal in Port Area, Manila on April 26, 2021, where mild to asymptomatic COVID-19 patients will be quarantined. (Photo by Ali Vicoy)
During the opening of Eva Macapagal Isolation Facility at the South Harbor in Port Area, Manila, Duque laments the insufficient number of nurses and doctors serving in the frontlines of the country’s battle against COVID-19.
COVID-19 infections surge past 1 million in the Philippines
JIM GOMEZ and AARON FAVILA, Associated Press
April 26, 2021
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1of9A man rides his pedicab with a slogan to remind people to wear masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Manila, Philippines on Monday, April 26, 2021. COVID-19 infections in the Philippines surged past 1 million Monday in the latest grim milestone as officials assessed whether to extend a monthlong lockdown in Manila and outlying provinces amid a deadly spike or relax it to fight recession, joblessness and hunger.Aaron Favila/APShow MoreShow Less
2of9A COVID-19 patient looks out from their isolation tent outside a hospital as cases increase in Manila, Philippines on Monday, April 26, 2021. COVID-19 infections in the Philippines surged past 1 million Monday in the latest grim milestone as officials assessed whether to extend a monthlong lockdown in Manila and outlying provinces amid a deadly spike or relax it to
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