Rodrigo Duterte

“President Rodrigo Duterte says he will not allow face-to-face classes to resume as long as there is no COVID-19 vaccine.”

Vera Files says: A week prior, the president said he will allow holding "limited face-to-face classes" by January 2021 in low-risk areas that pass government inspection.

“Martial law in Mindanao ended without abuses”

Vera Files says: Reports and findings of several human rights watchdogs and advocacy groups, both local and international, refute President Duterte’s claim.

“A vaccine is an antibody produced by the body to fight infection.”

Vera Files says: A vaccine is a product that contains a “killed” or “weakened” version, or parts of a pathogen. This is then used to train a person’s immune system to produce antibodies so that he or she develops immunity without having…

“President Duterte immediately convened the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases after the World Health Organization issued a warning about the novel coronavirus.”

Vera Files says: The IATF-EID first convened for the novel coronavirus threat on Jan. 28, 24 days after WHO’s first public warning.

“Nothing to clean in Pasig River”

“Erin Tañada didn't do a thing when he was senator except defend communists”