President Rodrigo Duterte said he had to postpone the easing of the lockdown in Metro Manila because the guidelines were inadequate and had to be reviewed.
The country has also sustained more than 34,000 deaths from more than 2.2 million cases of COVID-19, drawing further withering criticism of the Duterte administration’s management of the worst epidemic in Philippine history.
The Philippines is also believed to have suffered tens of thousands of deaths due to the 1918 flu pandemic that emerged in the United States, but official US colonial records recorded only more than 5,000. Before its implementation, however, San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora urged the Department of Health to revise its system of tallying patients and tag patients according to their actual residence instead of the location of the hospital where they are being treated.
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