Worst Covid-19 surge in South-east Asia hammers Philippine hospitals,


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MANILA (BLOOMBERG) - As hospitals in the Philippine capital reach capacity from a new surge of coronavirus cases, increasingly desperate Filipinos are stocking up on oxygen tanks and touting unapproved medications amid fears the health care system may collapse. Daily infections rose to a record last week in the Southeast Asian nation, where one in nearly five Covid-19 tests comes back positive and vaccination rates lag its neighbours. The Philippines is at risk of a "humanitarian crisis that will overwhelm the country and wipe out families" unless the government steps up testing, tracing and treatment efforts, opposition Senator Francis Pangilinan...