Duterte overturns task force decision to allow 10 to 14-year-olds outside

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President Rodrigo Duterte rejects a unanimous decision by the pandemic task force over fears of the new COVID-19 variant.

"Just to be sure, and in our desire to protect our people, 10 to 14 [year-old]," he said on Monday night, January 25, after a meeting with task force officials in Davao City.It's fear of the new COVID-19 variant observed in the United Kingdom that convinced Duterte to overturn his task force's move.

"I am compelled, it has nothing to do with incompetence. This is a precaution because there was or is a strain discovered in the Cordillera that is very similar to the strain in the United Kingdom," said Duterte. Doctors' groups like the Philippine Pediatric Society and the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society of the Philippines had earlierBotched bid by economic team

Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez had defended the easing of age-based restrictions by saying it would do much to stir economic activity and it was good for"family bonding."

 

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Memasabeleng

And stay at home for almost a year is good for their mental and physical health ?

Latest script ba ito? I don’t think it has relevance at all.

safe from covid. in danger of insanity . lockdowns ruin lives too.

Here comes the hero

Gobyerno nya ang gumawa ng isyu tapos sya ang lalabas na bida.

Drama pa more.

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