CDNTopStories: This was revealed Wednesday by Health Secretary Francisco Duque III during the resumption of the Senate hearing on the government’s COVID-19 response. Read more:
MANILA, Philippines — “Actually, we’re on the second wave” of COVID-19 infection.
Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. quizzed the Department of Health chief what the government’s plan would be should the second wave of COVID-19 infections hit the country. But Duque said: “Actually nasa second wave tayo, ‘yung first wave natin nagumpisa, batay po ito sa ating mag batikang epidemiologist, na ang first wave natin happened sometime in January,” referring to the period when the first three COVID-19 cases in the Philippines, involving three Chinese nationals from Wuhan, was reported.
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