President Rodrigo Duterte appealed to health workers who were not exempted from the overseas deployment ban just focus on serving Filipinos, saying the COVID-19 pandemic would “come to pass.”
“This is not really to offend those health workers of ours, doctors, nurses who want to go abroad to earn good money. I don’t have anything against you,” Duterte said in a taped speech, delivered partly in Filipino.
“I hope the others will have the spirit and the fervor to serve the Filipino people because we also need help and we have a crisis also to deal with. I’m not belittling you. I have respect for all of you,” he added. “To those who want to go out, it’s already allowed. But those left behind, I hope you stay longer. After all this COVID-19 will pass, it will come to pass. I’m sure of it. As I told you before, COVID vaccine,” he went on.
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