Sen. Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara —Senate PRIB
The government should convert the facilities that were previously used as quarantine centers into evacuation areas as the number of COVID-19 cases in the country had already significantly dropped, Sen. Juan Edgardo Angara said on Friday.
The chair of the Senate finance committee said the isolation facilities should be immediately inspected to check if these were still being utilized for its intended purpose.
“We want to see the utilization rate of these facilities and I suspect that many of them are no longer being utilized now,” Angara said in a statement. “We can put them to good use by converting them as evacuation centers for families affected by the typhoons that hit our country several times in a year,” he said.
The senator said these would be better than using public schools as temporary shelters for people displaced during calamities.
“Whenever the schools are converted into evacuation centers, classes end up being disrupted for significant periods of time,” he pointed out.
—Marlon Ramos
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