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“This means that the infection is coming from everywhere.” This means that our 3-month total lockdown that should have made us keep up with our contact tracing by doing the 1st step (mass testing), have all gone to waste. Failure. In. Governance. #Duterte #COVID19PH Kristoffer Pasion, @indiohistorian shutting down abs-cbn extends beyond thousands of jobs. it also affects Filipinos’ access to news and mass media culture. In some areas, reception is only limited only to abs-cbn’s signal. In even more remote areas, to radio stations operated by abs-cbn.

I have not read anywhere that arresting people and gathering them in one place are an effective COVID-19 prevention strategy. If anything, it seems a perfect way to spread the infection.