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Senate President Vicente Sotto III said "a lot" still has to be done to address the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, a year since lockdowns were imposed in the country.
Senate President Vicente Sotto III (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) In his statement Monday, March 15, Sotto acknowledge
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Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, chair of the said committee, said he has deemed it fit to indefinitely suspend the Senate probe, after PNP Chief Gen. Debold Sinas and PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva both tested positive for COVID-19.
Dela Rosa also noted that all other invited resource persons for Monday, March 15 probe, from both camps have been exposed to their principal and further advised to undergo quarantine.
“One of the close contacts of Gen. Sinas and Gen. (Vicente) Danao (Jr.)…died yesterday after testing positive together with the Chief PNP,” Dela Rosa said in a statement on Sunday, March 14.
Published March 13, 2021, 8:26 PM
The Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs will push through with its public hearing into the controversial shootout between the members of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and Philippine National Police (PNP).
Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, committee chairman, announced Saturday that the hearing was set for Monday, March 15.
Earlier, he decided to postpone the committee’s inquiry after President Duterte ordered the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to handle the probe so it would be impartial.
Two policemen, one PDEA agent, and an informant of the PDEA died after the gunfight between anti-drug operatives near a shopping mall along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City last February 24. A few days later, the NBI announced that another person also died.
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