6 DEAD AS COVID-19 SAVAGES ‘HOTBED’ OF ANTI-GOVT. PROTESTS

On Jul 30, 2020

UP Diliman management has been tolerant in allowing its premises to be used for anti-government protests despite the pandemic resulting to a spike in COVID-19 cases that have so far claimed six lives (photo by Mike Taboy)

THE ‘hotbed’ of the country’s anti-government protest actions, the University of the Philippines-Diliman (UPD) is now being plagued by COVID-19, with six of the victims confirmed dead.

In a bulletin released on July 30, 2020, by the UP Health Service, Public Health Unit, the Diliman community already has 118 COVID-19 cases as of Tuesday, July 28, 2020.

Of the total, 45 are “active cases,” 67 have purportedly recovered while 6 have died.

But observers claimed University officials “delayed” the release of the bulletin so that communist activists and other government critics can still proceed with their anti-government activities last Monday, July 27, 2020, the day of President Duterte’s State of the Nation Address.

UPD management has been tolerant in turning its premises as venue of anti-government demonstrations that utterly disregarded government regulations on social distancing and a temporary ban on any mass gathering due to the pandemic.