Unvaccinated workers in crammed buses during commutes compounded by bad weather make up the “perfect storm” that could drive Delta variant Covid-19 cases up, Senator Joel Villanueva warned on Saturday.
In appealing for more “rides and jabs” for essential and economic frontliners, the chair of the Senate labor committee said the sight of hundreds of them waiting at night for a ride home under heavy downpour “should not be the portrait of our state of the nation.”
He called on the government to come up with a mass transportation plan during the typhoon months when Metro Manila’s notoriously heavy vehicular traffic is aggravated by rains and floods.
“Kung pwede lang po sana may contingency plan kung ilan ang dagdag na PUVs ang pwede ma-deploy during ‘surge periods,’” Villanueva said.
If airlines can deploy reliever flights when there is a backlog of passengers to be transported, the same must apply in Mega Manila, he said.
The senator said one source of additional rides during bad weather in order to ferry tens of thousands of stranded breadwinners are “civilian government and military buses, vans, trucks.”
“Pwede pong pag-augment tulad ng ginagawa noon. Isama po natin ang mga government agencies sa bayanihan sa paghahatid ng mga pasaherong inabot ng hatinggabi na sa daan at wala pa ring masakayan,” Villanueva said.
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