By NG Seruela
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on Thursday (Sep. 16) asked the public to “exercise precautionary measures of washing, then distancing, and wearing the mask” as the COVID-19 infections in the country increases.
In his public address, President Duterte again urged the public to follow the minimum health standard to prevent the further spread of the virus and control the increase of cases.
“Simply the COVID cases are rising all throughout the country, tumataas po. Tumataas, maraming nahahawa, a lot of them are afflicted all over the country na,” he affirmed.
Duterte bared that even the children are acquiring the disease.
“At it used to be that the children were not affected by the contamination noon, pero ngayon pati bata. So just be careful. We are put on notice that ang mga ospital natin punong-puno at saka maraming namatay na sa atin, it’s 30,000 plus,” he said.
The President said that the cases are “going to increase as we travel this journey through the COVID pandemic,” therefore, asking the public to comply with the public health standards and the wearing of face masks and face shields.
He explained that the face shield will give extra protection to the user. He added that it is better to get a small percentage of protection than getting sick of the diseases.
“Itong face shield will provide an added premium of — well, of course, prevention.”
“It might not really be a big percentage but even if it’s just five percent more protected because you have the shield, eh mas maganda na ‘yan. Ano ba naman ‘yang inconvenience to the fact of getting sick and probably dying? Lalo na itong COVID [Delta] ngayon, it has affected the children also,” he said. -rir
