Pandemic Blues: Presidential Spokesperson Tested Positive with COVID-19

The image of the public authority’s pandemic team is presently important for COVID-19 insights. But surprisingly, The President’s representative Harry Roque declared yesterday that he has contracted COVID-19 however promised to keep playing out his capacities, including reminding general society to notice estimates that would shield them from the illness.

Roque, likewise the representative for the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF), said he found out about the positive consequence of his RT-PCR test minutes before his early afternoon virtual press preparation. The test was led last Sunday in anticipation of a gathering with President Duterte yesterday.

For this reason, the spokeperson and the people around him needs to go through isolate especially in the event that had a nearby contact with him. Roque asserted he didn’t have close connection with President Duterte so the 75-year-old pioneer need not disengage himself.

He said he was with the President a week ago during an occasion in Dumaguete, where they saw the introduction of port and air terminal activities.

He added that he was was negative for the Dumaguete excursion and I didn’t have any nearby contact with the President. He couldn’t approach him, just from a far distance.

Roque said he has not experienced COVID-19 side effects yet was slanted to go to an isolate office since his significant other has a comorbidity or a current disease. In spite of being tainted with COVID-19, Roque pledged to keep directing press briefings however conceded that he may not be as powerful.

Consequently, Since He is asymptomatic, He figured out that he can still continue and keep on releasing his capacities for his duties. He will likely not be as powerful on the grounds that he won’t go to the gatherings with the President and he won’t be genuinely with the President, however he will attempt to follow live inclusion of the President’s gathering.

For the President meeting with select individuals from the IATF, He will distantly be available. He will lead a Zoom around evening time with the gathering with the President.

In view of this, Last November, Roque attracted fire for going to an occasion Bantayan Island in Cebu where inhabitants neglected to notice physical separating. Roque had asserted condemning the crowd for not after the wellbeing measure.

The Palace representative was likewise condemned intensely for visiting a dolphin park in Subic in isolate however he guaranteed that no wellbeing conventions were abused during the outing.