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| President Rodrigo Duterte |
President
Rodrigo Duterte appealed to the Filipinos to stop blaming China for the 2019
novel coronavirus as it continuous to spread around the world.
In a report
by Politiko website, President Duterte said to stop anti-China sentiments as it’s
nobody’s fault.
“Stop this xenophobia
thing. They’re blaming the Chinese na galing sa China. The (novel coronavirus)
can always incubate in some other places,” said Duterte in a Palace briefing
Monday.
“That is
not the fault of anybody. Not of the Chinese, not of the Filipinos, not of
anyone. The world has passed on many kind of problem to the generations
earlier. We had the flu that killed so many millions in Europe and some other
contagion of a lesser scale,” he said
The president
also cited that China has been good to the Philippines, the favor must be
returned to them at least.
"One
is that we have many Filipinos in China. Second is even if there are none, you
know, we are a community of nations. We cooperate. China has been kind to us.
We can only also show the same favor to them,” he added.
Duterte
also assured the public that unlike the severe acute respiratory syndrome in 2003,
coronavirus will naturally die even without vaccines.
“Ito
matatapos rin ito. But will it worsen in the meantime? Maybe. But you know, the
progress of medical science now is far too different of the yesteryears. We
have powerful medicines now. Even cancer is treatable now,” the president said
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