In the largest call yet from medical experts to contain the virus, 80 groups representing 80,000 doctors and a million nurses, have warned of a collapse of the healthcare system from soaring infections of the new coronavirus without tighter controls in the capital and nearby provinces.

According to Reuters, the Philippines on Friday recorded its biggest daily jump in new cases for a second successive day, with 4,063 infections.

“Our health workers are burnt out with seemingly endless number of patients trooping to our hospitals for emergency care and admission,” the group, led by the Philippine College of Physicians, said in a letter to the president.

“We are waging a losing battle against Covid-19,” it added.