Vice President Leni Robredo (Jansen Romero / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
President Duterte was last seen by the public through his weekly address to the nation on March 29. Since then, the number of COVID-19 cases in the country has ballooned to 828,366 with 167,279 active cases as of April 8.
Although his former aide, Senator Christopher “Bong” Go, posted two purportedly recent photos of the President at the Bahay ng Pagbabago at the Presidential Security Group (PSG) compound, that didn’t stop netizens from making the #NasaanAngPangulo trend once more on social media.
During her interview with ANC’s Headstart, Robredo seconded the netizens’ concerns over Duterte’s seeming absence, which Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said was for health safety after at least 45 PSG members tested positive for COVID-19.