The Manila city government has purchased three COVID-19 testing machines capable of testing 16,800 residents a week.

The second week of July has been declared by President Duterte as National Infection Prevention and Control Week.

As the race to develop a vaccine is getting close to the finish line, health experts all over the world continue to study the infection pattern and the transmission path of COVID-19 – with new waves of infection hitting many places including those that were previously touted as a “model of virus prevention.”

I do not know who wrote the description “perfect” in describing President Duterte’s performance in the four years of his term.

Race has become a global issue mainly as a result of the police killings in the United States that gave birth to the Black Lives Matter movement.