00:00Fake news. That's the answer of the Department of Health and the Embassy of China regarding the spreading online of a new epidemic in the country.
00:11We also talked to a Filipino there. Jonathan Andal was there.
00:16It's fake news.
00:39Officially, we also communicated to the World Health Organization.
00:43It's obligatory for the countries to tell their fellow countrymen if they have a disease, so to speak.
00:50There's no such thing. Zero.
00:52If there's a real news about a disease that's different, we'll be the first to say it.
00:57Even the Chinese Embassy in Manila called this fake news.
01:01Even the Filipino I talked to, who lives in Wuhan, China, was also told that there's a new epidemic there.
01:08Actually, we're going out normally. There are no masks.
01:12No matter where you go, there's no panic.
01:17There's no news coming out here in China that we need to be careful about such diseases.
01:28Angeles said that it's winter in China right now.
01:31That's why there are so many people who really think that they're being pranked.
01:34But there's no declaration of a state of emergency, just like what's being spread on viral posts.
01:39This is also a time of natural cold.
01:44In this case, the number of respiratory illnesses is really increasing.
01:48In Tagalog, malatrang kasong sakit, influenza-like illness.
01:52It's natural every year.
01:54According to the Reuters report, acute respiratory diseases are really increasing in China.
02:00From December 16 to 22.
02:02Among the detected causes of the latest cases there are viruses that are common in the Philippines
02:08and are easy to fight against.
02:10They're not new diseases.
02:12It's not new. That virus is from 2001.
02:16And like many respiratory viruses, it doesn't have a vaccine.
02:21That's true. It doesn't have medicine. That's also true.
02:23But it's mild.
02:25In other words, it can fight a person who has a strong resistance.
02:30According to the DOH, it's possible that some of us have PTSD or post-traumatic stress disorder due to COVID-19.
02:38So that's the fear and anxiety of reading viral posts.
02:42Let's have a reminder or a warning that anxiety is increasing again.
02:50So for our fellow countrymen who click, click, share, share,
02:55check first where it came from.
02:57There is still COVID-19 now.
02:59That's why the World Health Organization or WHO is continuously calling on China
03:03to give them access to data to better understand the origin of COVID-19.
03:08China's response is that they are sharing with the international community
03:12the data and results of their studies on COVID-19.
03:16For GMA Integrated News, Jonathan Andal, Nakatutok, 24 Hours.
03:27For GMA Integrated News, Jonathan Andal, Nakatutok, 24 Hours.
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