Moody’s Investors Service has tagged health and safety as “highly negative” risks for the Philippines’ fiscal metrics.

In a report on Tuesday, the New York-based credit rating agency said the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted existing gaps in health infrastructure in some parts of Asia, citing India and the Philippines as countries where “health and safety have been identified as a source of ‘highly negative’ risk.”

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