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Locsin: Cebu City underreports COVID-19 cases

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Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Monday maintained that there has been under-reporting of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) cases in Cebu City following the recent death of a British national who succumbed to cardiac arrest inside an ambulance hours after being refused admission in a hospital.

“Sorry it happened. Apparently there’s been under-reporting. One thing about the pandemic is you can under-report it on the paper but you can’t under-report on the deaths there are. They couldn’t handle it anymore,” Locsin said on the Headstart program over ANC.

Quoting his friends in Cebu, Locsin said the hospitals where the British national was earlier brought for admission “are really full beyond their capacity.” Last week, Locsin Jr. sent his “abject apologies” to the United Kingdom following the death of the British national. The foreign affairs secretary criticized the Cebu City government for what he called “grossly undercounted” individuals infected with COVID-19.

 

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