While Go may have kept his distance, beneficiaries at the gathering were seen crowding each other. Most were also not wearing masks.



The senator said that they were not crowding because of him, but because the evacuation center itself is crowded with people.



"I advised the local official and national agencies to make it easier to give the assistance, especially to those who lost their homes," Go said in his statement in Filipino. "Because how can they practice 'social distancing measures' if they don't have another place to live [in] but the evacuation center where they are crowding each other?"