MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Leni Robredo expressed alarm that something may be wrong with the government’s response to the COVID-19 crisis and hopes President Rodrigo Duterte would
announce steps to correct the mistakes when he delivers his fifth State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 27, 2020.
The Vice President said the Philippines already has the most number of active cases among Southeast Asian countries, and she noted it took the country less than a month to record more than 78,000 cases on Saturday from around 40,000 at the end of June. Opposition Sen. Risa Hontiveros, for her part, said the government should “apologize for its shortcomings in the last few months” and focus on the contagion instead of “featuring more denials, threats and downplaying of the pandemic.”The government’s management of the crisis was also the theme of the homily Manila Archdiocese administrator Bishop Broderick Pabillo prepared for Sunday, July 26.
Catholic priest Jerome Secillano, executive secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, was more conciliatory in urging the government to step up.
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