Dr. Anthony Leachon, former special adviser of the National Task Force (NTF) for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), made headlines on Wednesday after he was
“I left NTF due to my differences with DOH policies, for example, lack of sense of urgency, problems in COVID data management and transparency in communication process. That’s life. That’s how it is. There’s a silver lining though. Thank you very much,” he tweeted.Muntinlupa City Rep. Rozzano Rufino Biazon wrote, “Dr. Leachon has been consistent from the beginning back in late January and early February, when it was clear that the problem was management of the crisis.
Many netizens commented that it was Department of Health Secretary Francisco Duque who should have resigned and not Leachon.
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