More news about how the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines is being handled by the public and the government.
Do you know what gaslighting is? It is when someone does something and then denies they did it in a bid to manipulate. Here is a perfect example.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1172549 |
The government and health authorities are not promoting scare tactics to further improve the country’s Covid-19 vaccination program, National Task Force (NTF) against Covid-19 chief and vaccine czar, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said Wednesday.
In a virtual media forum, Galvez clarified that the government's massive vaccination campaign only aims to push a higher level of vigilance among the public.
“We are not yet over [with this pandemic]. We are not yet ensured that resurgence of cases will not happen again,” Galvez said, emphasizing that the virus still exists and vaccination is crucial in protecting one’s health.
“The major challenge now is how to change the mindset of the people that the virus still exists,” he said. “We could not afford to become vigilant and be complacent.”
Galvez says the government is not using scare tactics even as he admits they are trying to change the mindset of the people by fear mongering over another surge.
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| https://www.rappler.com/nation/doh-warns-follow-health-standards-or-see-covid-19-surge-may-2022/ |
The Department of Health (DOH) warned on Thursday, April 14, that if Filipinos continued to stay complacent with quarantine rules, a COVID-19 surge of as high as 500,000 active cases in Metro Manila by mid-May could happen.“The country may have had a low number of cases from March to April but Filipinos have been doing MPHS (minimum public health standards) during the same period,” the DOH said in a statement citing its experts.
The DOH made the announcement as millions of Filipinos made their way to their home provinces and headed for vacations – a movement that could lead to increased transmission of the virus.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1172625 |
Quezon City remains at a “very low risk” classification as the number of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) infections continues to decline, the local government said on Thursday.
In a Facebook post, the most populous city in Metro Manila has 114 active Covid-19 cases or 0.04 percent of the city’s total infections recorded since the pandemic started in March 2020 as of 8 a.m. Thursday.
Data from the OCTA Research shows that Quezon City records only an average of 12 new cases per day.
The city’s positivity rate which indicates the spread of the disease as it shows the number of reinfections also went down to 1.6 percent from last week’s 1.7 percent.
The QC Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Unit (CESU) said the city’s recovery rate is now at 99.30 percent after 259,932 individuals recovered from the dreaded disease.
QC Mayor Joy Belmonte said this positive development is a testament to the city government’s relentless campaign against Covid-19.
“(This is not the success of the city government only but of our residents who relentlessly unite with our efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus),” Belmonte said.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1586515/filipinos-must-think-of-country-get-covid-19-booster-shots-concepcion |
You really have to appreciate the logic here. "Filipinos are currently very lax against the fight against COVID-19 due to the low number of infections" therefore the people will be to blame if there is a surge which, from how much they talk about it, they seem to want.What should be the best encouragement for Filipinos to get their COVID-19 booster shots?
A sense of nationalism, Presidential adviser for entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion said on Friday.
He pointed out that Filipinos are currently very lax against the fight against COVID-19 due to the low number of infections, which Concepcion said, they have mistaken as being in the “endemic state” already.
This is why the public is not so much amped up to get their booster shots, thinking they are safe from COVID-19 already.
“I think people are just so confident that we’re in the endemic state. True enough, we’re moving towards that but we’re still getting there. If people want to remove the mask and whenever I go out, people have put down their masks in parties, out there. That creates more risks,” he said in an interview on ABS CBN News Channel.
“But for us to be able to have that freedom, we have to take the booster shots. You know, when people are comfortable, they say ‘I’ll just take my booster when cases start going up,’ but not realizing that these vaccines are time-bound and the government has purchased it and it’s in the Philippines already,” Concepcion added.
Filipinos should have a sense of nationalism and think they are helping the country if they take their booster shots, Concepcion noted.
“People themselves have to think of their country. And the boosters will help their country. There has to be something in them, a sense of nationalism to really take this booster shot,” he said.
A simple reminder to comply with minimum public health protocols took a chaotic turn in Barangay Real 1 here.
Bacoor City Police Station arrested Alvin Ramos and Jonald Aquino on Wednesday, April 21, when the two threw a fit after being accosted by barangay officials for not wearing face masks.
The suspects cursed the barangay officials and challenged them to a duel.
According to the police report, the suspects said, “Patayan na lang tayo (Let’s duel to death),” and “Gusto n’yo pasabugin ko barangay hall n’yo (If you want, I’ll blow up your barangay hall).”
“Parang binabalewala nila ‘yung mga barangay tanod eh. Na-handle naman nila, dinala sa station (They seemed to disregard the barangay officials. But the officials handled the situation well and brought the suspects to the station),” Patrolman Marco Romero C. Cupo told the Manila Bulletin.
Cupo says the suspects may have been intoxicated during the incident.
Both suspects are under police custody and are facing charges for the bomb threat as well as oral defamation, unjust vexation, challenging to a duel, and disobedience to a person in authority.
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| https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1927283/manila/local-news/octa-50000-to-100000-active-covid-19-cases-possible-soon |
OCTA research fellow Dr. Guido David said the possible resurgence of coronavirus disease (Covid-19), which may happen “soon,” may push the active cases in the country to 50,000 to 100,000.
David compared the Philippines’ Covid-19 situation to South Africa and India, which experienced a spike in cases in a span of one week due to the new sub-variants of the highly transmissible Omicron strain -- the BA.4, BA.5 and its sublineage, the BA.2.12.
(Why is this concerning? Because we are following the situation of a few countries like South Africa, India and Indonesia.)
(Because of the spike in cases in South Africa and India, I think it is very likely that we also see an increase in cases in the Philippines sometime in the near future. I cannot say when it will happen, whether in May or June, but we see the surge in South Africa and India and it will likely happen here in the Philippines.)
Octa’s projection is lower than the 500,000 active cases projected by the Department of Health earlier when the country experienced another surge.
The DOH earlier said it is continuously monitoring developments in the said sub-variants, noting that it should not be any cause of concern.
“What would be most important, especially right now, would be if this increase in cases translates to increased admissions in hospitals,” Vergeire said in an online briefing on Friday.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1588081/ncr-hospital-mistakenly-gave-2nd-booster-vax-to-unqualified-recipients |
The Department of Health (DOH) has confirmed that a hospital in the National Capital Region (NCR) mistakenly provided second COVID-19 vaccine boosters to health workers and senior citizens who are not yet qualified to receive it.
According to a statement from the DOH on Tuesday, the hospital management told them that they unintentionally misinterpreted the guidelines for the second booster provisions, which are only for immunocompromised (ICP) health workers and seniors.
The DOH assured that they are checking on the issue, while stressing that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) only for ICP individuals under A1 and A2 categories.
“The Department of Health is looking into reports that a hospital in NCR has administered second boosters to frontline healthcare workers and senior citizens who are not immunocompromised (ICP),” DOH said.
“Hospital management has explained that they unintentionally misinterpreted guidelines. The FDA-approved amended EUA states that senior citizens, front-line healthcare workers, and ICPs may be administered with a 2nd booster. The Health Technology Assessment Council (HTAC) has completed recommendations for ICPs. HTAC is still reviewing evidence for senior citizens and HCWs,” it added.
The rollout of the second booster shots for the immunocompromised A1 and A2 — or health workers and senior citizens — started earlier. The government targets to vaccinate around 7,000 to 13,000 of the 690,000 Filipinos deemed most vulnerable, as an added protection amid fears of a new surge by May.
DOH Secretary Francisco Duque III remains positive that high vaccination coverages and the booster shots would make COVID-19 a mere endemic in the near future.
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