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PNA file photo MANILA - Albay Rep. Joey Salceda on Monday called for a more rational system for designating alert levels for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the provinces, as the wrong alert level could "kill jobs". Salceda, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said the Covid-19 alert level system should be proportional to the actual risks so that people are not "unnecessarily constrained" from going about their business. He pointed out the seemingly arbitrary way that provinces are assigned to different alert levels, citing the case of Albay, where most municipalities have not recorded Covid-19 cases in weeks and where hospital utilization rates are low. "We are still on Alert Level 2, even when we are clearly doing much better than even NCR (National Capital Region) areas in Alert Level 1," he said in a statement. Since March 15, some 70 percent of the economy has already shifted to alert level 1, which means that more restrictions were

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