HEALTH Secretary Francisco Duque 3rd recommended that the National Capital Region and the outlying areas that comprise NCR Plus remain in modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) for two more weeks to enable hospitals to free up more beds for Covid-19 patients.
BUSY DAY A health worker pushes a Covid-19 patient to an isolation tent outside a hospital in Manila on Monday, April 26, 2021, as the number of infections in the Philippines surged past 1 million. AP PHOTO