‘Unfounded rumors’ of Covid surge before elections belied

MANILA – The Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday categorically denied "unfounded rumors" that it will report a coronavirus surge days before the May 9 elections and pin the blame on campaign rallies.

A tweet posted on April they went to a rally of a 28 about a supposed DOHdeclared certain candidate. surge garnered "The Department of over 11,000 “likes” and Health categorically denies 2,213 retweets. unfounded rumors that

It alleged that two days it will report an artificial before the election, the increase in Covid-19 cases DOH will release a report close to election day for indicating a hike in Covid-19 partisan use against any cases and that some candidate at any level," the of the positive individuals DOH said in a statement. will be ordered to say that

VOTERS’ EDUCATION CAMPAIGN. The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Davao 2nd District kicked off its three-day Vote Counting Machine (VCM) demo at SM Lanang Premier dubbed as “Let’s Vote Pinas on April 22 at the former Prestige Lounge. The event provided shoppers, mall employees, and security personnel an opportunity to cast their votes in a mock election and learn the do’s and don’ts when casting their votes inside a polling precinct.*