Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo denies reports that government is preventing the disclosure of information on the number of fatalities
The government is not ordering hospitals to conceal information on COVID-19 fatalities, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles clarified Sunday.
"Hindi po ito totoo. Naglabas na po ng pahayag ang DOH na wala po silang ganitong utos sa mga ganitong ospital. Tuloy-tuloy po ang balita namin sa COVID-19 response. It is our responsibility to give you facts,"[Translation: This is not true. The DOH already issued a statement saying that they have no such directive to hospitals. We continuously update the public about our COVID-19 response. It is our responsibility to give you facts.
"Such allegation against the government is absolutely bereft of logic as well as of common sense. What would the government get from concealing the actual number of deaths due to COVID-19?" he said in a statement. "The government is precisely interested in knowing the number of deaths so that we will know the status of our fight against the coronavirus and we can undertake measures to improve our health system," he said.Nograles said he and other Cabinet members from concerned agencies also tackled the issue and have resolved to impose a 12-hour-cremation policy among hospitals for COVID-19 deaths.
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