February 21, 2020

Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin praised China's efforts to contain the novel coronavirus pneumonia with its scientific capabilities to monitor the disease to prevent a larger scale of spreading across continents, offering a ­perspective of the Southeast Asian country in handling crisis on regional cooperation to fight the disease. 

"Finally, we must deplore the lies spread by govts and people who are stooping so low as to use a threat against all humanity as an instrument of geopolitical strategy. Shame on them," Locsin said in a tweet on Friday. 

Locsin noted in another tweet that the world got a head start because the Chinese scientific community had a robust disease-monitoring network in place to detect emerging flu strains, and had experienced the SARS outbreak from 2002 to 2003.

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