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A day after claiming that the country is already in its second wave of COVID-19, which drew massive criticisms from lawmakers and online users, Health Sec. Francisco Duque III concedes that the Philippines is still in its first major wave.

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CONTEXT: In a Senate hearing Wednesday, Duque announced that the country has been experiencing a second wave of COVID-19 cases since March, leaving legislators and many observers dumbfounded.

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CONTEXT: Contrary to Duque's earlier pronouncement of a second wave and the country already 'flattening the curve,' medical experts said the Philippines is still dealing with the first wave of COVID-19 because the epidemic curve has not yet flattened,

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CONTEXT: Earlier today, even the Palace disagreed with the health chief's pronouncement, saying that the country is still battling its first wave of COVID-19 infections.

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CONTEXT: Senator @kikopangilinan also questioned Duque's pronouncement citing some of Duque's previous statements about COVID-19 that are 'doubtful.'

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READ: House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano says conducting a hearing on #ABSCBNFranchise does not mean automatic renewal.

Cayetano, who had deflected blames over the network's shutdown to NTC and SolGen Calida, says there are still "other concerns that need to be resolved."
CONTEXT: When ABS-CBN went off air, Cayetano kept mum for three days, only to speak up last Friday and say there will be a “reckoning” for the “flip-flopping of the NTC and unconstitutional meddling by the solicitor general in the business of Congress.”

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CONTEXT: In his statement last Friday, Cayetano said Congress was busy dealing with other issues such as the Taal Eruption in January 2020.

But in late January, the House of Representatives had time to unveil an exhibit of Kobe Bryant paraphernalia.

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With a vote of 13-2, the Supreme Court has rejected the petition seeking to compel the government to disclose the health bulletin of President Rodrigo Duterte.

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CONTEXT: In April 2020, lawyer Dino De Leon asked the Supreme Court to compel President Rodrigo Duterte to make public his latest health bulletin amid his allegedly muddled handling of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the Philippines.

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CONTEXT: In August 2018, Duterte admitted being in “perpetual pain” because of a motorcycle accident years ago but expressed confidence it is not yet his time.

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Palace Spokesman Harry Roque claims that "Duterte is completely neutral on the issue" of ABS-CBN's franchise.

Since he was elected in 2016, Duterte has repeatedly expressed his anger against ABS-CBN accusing it of bias, non-payment of taxes and estafa.

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CONTEXT: During ABS-CBN's franchise hearing in the Senate last February 24, 2020, the network was scolded for airing anti-Duterte political advertisements back in the 2016 elections campaign.

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CONTEXT: In May 2017, Duterte said he would file charges of multiple syndicated estafa against ABS-CBN Corp. for allegedly failing to run his political advertisements during the election campaign even after he paid P2.8 million.

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