A coach from Team Philippines will be sent home following back-and-forth false positive and negative tests for COVID-19, Philippine Olympic Committee president Rep. Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino revealed during a mini conference here Thursday.

It’s the Philippines’ largest delegation of Olympic athletes in 17 years as a contingent of 19 nine men and 10 women are staking their claim to glory in the extraordinary Tokyo Summer Games destined to go down in history as the most turbulent quadrennial event ever with the specter of COVID-19 threatening to bring gloom to the Land of the Rising Sun.

Twelve more local cases of the highly transmissible Delta variant have been detected in four regions in the country including three in Metro Manila, the Department of Health reported yesterday.

The OCTA Research Group expressed yesterday serious concern over the continuing rise of COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila, saying the region appears to be on the brink of another surge.

Everyone is engaged in improvisation in responding to this pandemic. Still, it must be possible to inject some method or system into the improvisation.