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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, July 18) As the highly transmissible Delta variant reaches the Philippines, Vice President Leni Robredo urged the national government on Sunday to boost the funding of regions outside the capital to equip them for a possible surge of new infections.
The government official during her weekly radio show on Sunday said the government must be proactive and start extending financial assistance to regions that still lack the capacity to handle a COVID-19 spike.
“Sana buhusan sila ng pondo pandagdag ng capacity, dagdag na tao, medical equipment,” Robredo said.
[Translation: I hope they will be flooded with additional funds to increase their capacity, manpower, and medical equipment.]
Vice President and opposition leader Leni Robredo does not agree with President Duterte’s order to arrest people who are not wearing their face masks. “I don’t understand why our default is to arrest people,” Robredo said in Filipino during her Sunday radio show.
VP Leni Robredo (OVP photo)