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PRC Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Senator Richard J. Gordon said Sunday, May 2, that they have already assisted a total of 253 asymptomatic COVID-19 patients.
‘Marami marami na rin ang natulungan sa ating mga (Many have been assisted in our) [isolation facilities), 253 patients served,” he said in a TeleRadyo interview.
The PRC has set up isolation facilities at Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU), University of the Philippines (UP)-Diliman, De La Salle-College of St. Benilde (DLS-CSB) in Manila, and Adamson University (AdU).
Gordon said currently, 189 COVID patients “are admitted” at their four isolation centers, while 71 have already been discharged.
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“Actually sobrang okay po yung stay ko dun parang nagstaycation lang po ako actually. Sobrang maayos po sya, masaya naman. Kung walang ibang appointment gusto ko pa pong magstay po (Actually, my stay there was very okay, it looks like I was actually spending staycation. It was very good, all was well. If I don’t have other appointment, I still want to stay ,” Kla, not her real name, said in an interview with TeleRadyo.
The facility, which is located in the building complex of AdMU’s junior high school in the Quezon City campus, was opened on April 17 to serve as isolation center for asymptomatic COVID-19 patients.
Sen. Francis Pangilinan
‘’Yes, nakikita natin na hindi ito ang unang beses na nagkaroon ng overprice sa mga binibili ng gobyerno sa ilalim ng COVID,’’ Pangilinan said in a TV interview this morning. (Yes, we have seen that this is not the first time that overpricing in the purchase of COVID-19 related supplies had taken place.)
Pangilinan’s interview took place before Senator Panfilo M. Lacson, in today’s plenary session, said in a privilege speech that government officials who appeared in the Senate Committee of the Whole (COW) public hearing last Friday were not forthright in the planned roll out of COVID-19 vaccines.