Duterte orders AFP PNP medics to help hospitals
President Duterte directed the AFP and PNP to deploy medical personnel due to rising COVID-19 infections among health workers.
The AFP plans to send five medical teams, each with one doctor, nurse, and three aid men, to hospitals in Metro Manila.
Defense Secretary Lorenzana had already ordered some nurses from the military to be deployed earlier.
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