MANILA: Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has extended a strict lockdown in the capital region and adjacent provinces by at least one week to try to contain a renewed surge in coronavirus infections, his spokesman said on Saturday .
"We call on local governments to tighten enforcement of our quarantine measures and confront people who fail to follow minimum health standards," Roque said. But intensive care capacity in the capital region's hospitals has reached a critical level, with 80 per cent of beds utilised and many hospitals being forced to turn away patients.To boost capacity, the health department said modular tents were being delivered to hospitals across Metro Manila with the help of the World Health Organization and the UN children fund UNICEF.
The congested capital region, an urban sprawl of 16 cities home to at least 13 million people, accounts for two-fifths of the country's 784,043 confirmed cases and a third of the total 13,423 deaths.A University of the Philippines research team on Saturday called for a speedy construction of isolation facilities to prevent infections from spreading through households.
Being cancer-stricken and begging CPF Board to repay overdue debt; that which in any case cannot be done as the money had been commingled and funneled to private entity Temasek Holdings for Ho Ching to wager on unviable, untenable and ultimately, invariably doomed gambles
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