Amid the proposed House probe, OCTA Research fellow and biologist Fr. Nicanor Austriaco calls for unity, saying everyone must simply work together to defeat the 'common enemy'—the COVID-19 virus.
in a UP webpage noted that"the UP-OCTA team is an independent and interdisciplinary research group composed primarily of UP faculty members and alumni," with contributors from the University of Santo Tomas and Providence College in the United States.
The team clarified that the findings and recommendations of the authors of the report do not reflect the official position of the mentioned institutions. In October 2020, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque asked OCTA to refrain from making public recommendations because their epidemiologists are"not the same number of experts working with the IATF ."At that time, the think tank recommended stricter quarantine rules in some parts of the country that have emerged as hotspots with rising daily attack rates.In an online forum, OCTA Research fellow and biologist Fr.
"Despite our differences, we must work together as one people to fight our common enemy," Austriaco said."Our enemy is not each other. Our enemy is the virus that is threatening the lives and livelihoods of our kababayans ." Metro Manila will shift to the strictest enhanced community quarantine on Friday, Aug. 6, to control the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
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