“Palace Spokesperson Harry Roque claims that the Duterte administration deserves an 85 percent rating for effective COVID-19 response because it managed to minimize the number of deaths and infection, owing primarily for being the first country in Southeast Asia to impose a lockdown.”
What Vera Files found
Vietnam was the first country in Southeast Asia to close its borders on Jan. 23. President Duterte declared a travel ban on all visitors from Hubei province only on Jan. 31, and expanded it to cover the whole of China and its special administrative regions starting Feb. 2 when the place was already on lockdown for a week.
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In short
Harry Roque made this claim around 16 September 2020. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 22 September 2020, 6 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Harry Roque has 50 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 31 of them false or fake, 18 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F_p5HRgSbo
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