 Hi Edward, Here are the most important news that you need to know. As the National Capital Region (NCR) and nearby provinces begin a two-week lockdown today, 12 of the 22 major hospitals in Metro Manila are already at critical risk in terms of their ICU capacity. BAGUIO CITY—Prices of vegetables from Benguet and nearby areas have spiked due to prolonged monsoon rains that disrupted supply and delivery to the main trading hub in the provincial capital of La Trinidad.  JAB OR BUST A throng besieges a vaccination center at Robinsons Manila shopping mall on the eve of the two-week enhanced community quarantine that starts today. The crush was prompted by fears that the unvaccinated would be forced to stay home or—worse— be disqualified from receiving aid.—RICHARD A. REYES  CEBU CITY—Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia has issued an order regulating the sale of medical oxygen amid panic buying and hoarding by families of patients waiting for admission into hospitals overwhelmed by a surge in COVID-19 cases. There is urgent merit in Sen. Franklin Drilon’s push for a special audit of the P19 billion budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac), amid that anti-insurgency body’s proposed P40 billion budget next year. |
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Thursday, August 5, 2021
12 big Metro hospitals hit ‘critical risk’ level
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