GMA News: Covid-19 Swab Testing Goes Online!

QUEZON CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Quezon City Bureau) –  GMA News is reporting that swab testing for Covid-19 can now be done online. 

The good news came during a GMA News interview witn an official of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DWPH) who said the Philippines would now be able to conduct 31,600 coronavirus tests per day by next week.

It wasn’t clear from the report whether it would be DWPH or DOH that would be conducting the testing.

Regardless, the online testing will be in keeping with the country’s Covid-19 guidelines of social distancing — your nose swabbed from the comfort of your home via computer!

Donald Trump’s Two-Minute Phone Call With Philippines’ DFA Secretary Teddy Boy Locsin

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Boy Locsin got the surprise of his life when he received a 3 a.m. (3 p.m. U.S. East Coast time) phone call on Monday (Sunday in Washington, D.C.) from U.S. President Donald Trump.

Locsin is facing ridicule for his recent tweet that seemed to suggest that ingesting or injecting soap could protect Filipinos from COVID-19 since as toddlers they ate soap in the tub and their angry patents washed their mouths with soap.

Trump was similarly criticized for suggesting in a White House press briefing that Americans could be protected from the coronavirus by ingesting or injecting disinfectants.

The Adobo Chronicles obtained a transcript of the two-minute conversation which we are now sharing with our readers and followers:

TRUMP: Hello Teddy Boy, how are you my friend?

TBL: Doing well, Mr. President. It’s an honor to receive a phone call from the greatest leader on earth!

TRUMP: Cut the crap, I already know that. So I heard you’re being bashed for you recent tweet about soap?

TBL: Yes, Mr. President. The news media and netizens don’t get sarcasm.

TRUMP: Those idiots. Fake news, especially that CNN.

TBL: I know, hahaha.

TRUMP: But Teddy, what if injecting or ingesting disinfectants or soap actually worked to stop the spread of the coronavirus?

TBL: Then we’d be famous and we’ll make it to the history books!

TRUMP: I will, but you won’t. You’re just a copycat.

TBL: Whaaat?

TRUMP: You’re a good-for-nothing, obscure, self-obsessed little man from some third world country. You’re bad, very bad. You’re a disgrace to my good friend Rody Dutertey.

TBL: Haha, Mr. President. I like your sense of humor.

TRUMP: That wasn’t a joke, you idiot!

TBL: Well you go to hell, Donald Duck! You know that tweet of mine about soap? I was being sarcastic about you and your stupidity!

(End of phone call.)

In Cavite, Lechon, Fundador Offered As Incentives To Stay At Home

Cavite City, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Esquire magazine is reporting that nothing’s better than free lechon to motivate Caviteños to stay at home.  Or brandy.  Fundador.

In the Cavite municipality of Alfonso, Mayor Randy Salamat is encouraging his constituents to stay at home by offering up a reward of 10 lechon to the barangay with zero or the least number of enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) violators.

Alfonso’s “Best in Lechon” contest will start on April 27 and end on May 15. According to Salamat, the 10 pieces of lechon will be donated by two Alfonso citizens, Ysrael Landico and Dodo Credo.

Not to be outdone, the mayor of an unnamed nearby town is offering a case of Fundador brandy to the barangay with zero ECQ violators.

Anything to keep Filipinos indoors amid the threat of Covid-19.

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