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MANILA, Philippines – “Spray pesticides” on the Philippines, or simply Metro Manila, to get rid of COVID-19, said a sarcastic president, Rodrigo Duterte, addressing Vice President Leni Robredo, in a prerecorded speech broadcast Monday night .
Do not believe them, especially these Yellows, I hate to mention her name, but this Leni. She’s saying all kinds of things, ”he said, speaking in part in Filipino.
“You know, Leni, if you want, if you really want to end COVID-19, let’s spray the Philippines or Manila with pesticide from an airplane so that everything is dead. COVID-19 cannot be exterminated with what we have now. The only thing we can do is put on a mask, and voila, and wait for the vaccine, ”Duterte added.
[Original statement: “Alam mo, Leni, kung gusto mo, if you really want to do away with the COVID, i-sprayan natin itong Pilipinas, o Manila, ng pesticide galing sa eroplano para patay lahat. You cannot exterminate the COVID by itong ano lang (meron) ngayon. The only thing that we can do really is to wear a mask, and that it’s and wait for the vaccine.]Duterte questioned the notion that the administration had not been working, a common observation among critics, including Robredo, who previously said the government seemed “aimless.”
According to him, administration officials have done their best as they have selected all hospitals and facilities, including even funeral homes, that can be used to care for COVID-19 patients and deaths.
The president cited the Secretary of Health, Francisco Duque III, as an example of an official who had been working hard on the problems brought by the pandemic.
“Don’t make the problem worse. Don’t add to the pandemic by making such reckless statements that we are not doing enough, ”he said. “Secretary Duque has been working, almost without eating, without sleeping at work. So don’t overdo it. “
“And I said don’t fool people, fool them about [us] not doing enough. Their mouths seem to do nothing but criticize and push this administration, ”he said.
At the beginning of his speech, Duterte also noted that members of the opposition would speak out against his administration regardless of what his officials did.
He cited Robredo’s comments expressing concern over the dumping of crushed dolomite to simulate white sand along part of the Manila Bay shoreline and the lack of physical distancing among people who came to view the development on Sunday.
Robredo has spoken openly about the administration’s alleged shortcomings in handling the COVID-19 crisis: lack of a comprehensive plan, poor contact tracing, unprepared alternative education systems, and various missteps that resulted in economic performance. Poor compared to other Southeast Asian countries.
He also spoke earlier about how the government seemed to have no leader and not in control of the situation.
During his Sunday morning radio show “BISErbisyong LENI,” Robredo again noted that the administration had been issuing changing statements, often contradicting each other.
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