President Rodrigo Duterte asserted that the Philippines is making significant progress in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.
“One, we are slowly but surely making progress in our COVID-19 campaign. Second, I am very pleased to inform the entire nation that we continue to beat COVID-19. Recent statistics affirmed this,” Duterte said in his weekly public address on government interventions on the pandemic.
The country’s positivity rate has dropped from 3.4% recorded on Nov. 18 to 2.3% on Nov. 23.
The active cases in the country also dropped at 19,000, as of November 23.
The president, however, reminds the public not to be complacent.
“You have to supplement God’s mercy by complying with to protocols set by the government — because God will be looking at the compliance to protocols set by the government. He might withdraw his mercy and we will be in a pitiable situation,” he added.
