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(File photo) MANILA - A lawmaker on Monday said a coronavirus alert level increase will worsen the food situation for around 640,000 households in the National Capital Region (NCR) and could bring them below the hunger line. Albay Rep. Joey Salceda made the statement after the Department of Health announced on Monday that the NCR could once again be placed under tighter restrictions of Alert Level 2 if Covid-19 cases continue to increase. Salceda also noted that every week of lockdown in NCR costs workers around PHP1.6 billion in salaries. "If they have no plan for how to replace the nutrition, non-Covid health, and welfare losses from that, then we should be more circumspect about declaring alert levels," Salceda told reporters in a message. "At this point, the alert level system, which is primarily based on the number of Covid-19 cases, no longer makes sense from a healthcare point of view. Cases will always be there, so we have to measure our ability to live with the ....

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