Under a General Community Quarantine, citizens now have a bigger responsibility to make sure COVID-19 does not spread – yet, the state still has to do its share, Sen. Panfilo Lacson said Tuesday.
In a post on his Twitter account, Lacson said authorities still have the responsibility to truthfully report the situation instead of embellishing the data to project efficiency.
“From ECQ to GCQ. The burden shifts from the state to the citizens. What is left to the authorities, aside from setting things right is the responsibility to be truthful and accurate in reporting the real situation. Embellishment to project efficiency is a disservice to our people,” he said (https://twitter.com/iampinglacson/status/1267634015474823168).
During the Senate Committee of the Whole’s hearing on the COVID-19 situation last May, Lacson questioned the DOH’s handling of data, citing its limitations in terms of data encoding.
Such limitations give the public the impression that there are only 200 new cases a day. In turn, such flaws may lead to wrong decisions made by policy makers, he said. “So naliligaw ang kababayan natin,” he added.
Before this, the University of the Philippines Resilience Institute bared “alarming errors” by the DOH in handling patient-level data.
This prompted Lacson to point out such flaws, whether inadvertent or otherwise, would be reason enough to make people responsible and accountable.
Last week, the Department of Health reformatted its reporting of COVID-19 cases to include “fresh” and “late” cases.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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