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(File photo) MANILA - A lawmaker on Thursday said healthcare frontliners should be deployed in school campuses for the opening of face-to-face classes this year. BHW Party-list Rep. Angelica Co said the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) response at this time should have more emphasis on all the schools and campus communities because classes are resuming with face-to-face contact. Co said the Department of Health and local government units should deploy barangay health workers to help school principals protect students and teachers from the "many health risks out there". "Schools and barangays will have to work together more now. Some kids going back to school would probably have difficulties involving social skills, mental health, undernourishment, lacking mandatory vaccines, on top of learning deficiencies because of two years of pandemic," she said. She noted that the DOH should provide additional honorarium or stipend to the barangay health workers that will be depl