Published April 16, 2021, 7:01 PM Opposition Senator Risa Hontiveros on Friday, April 16) said it is unnecessary for the government to take “drastic” steps to address the lack of quarantine facilities to treat the increasing number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients by taking over hotels to turn it into isolation quarters. Sen. Risa Hontiveros(Senate of the Philippines / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) “At the end of his sentence, even the President realized, in his own words, that is not a remedy. And we don’t need to employ such drastic steps if from the start, we boosted our health facilities,” Hontiveros said in an interview on CNN Philippines.