More news about how the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines is being handled by the public and the government.
Limited face-to-face classes will be resuming soon and some teachers will be receiving hazard pay.
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| https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/806097/briones-teachers-teaching-in-ecq-areas-to-get-extra-hazard-pay/story/ |
Education Secretary Leonor Briones on Thursday promised that additional hazard pay will be given to teachers teaching in areas under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ).
This hazard pay is separate from the other benefits that educators receive, Briones said at a Palace briefing where she also reported on the pilot testing of limited face-to-face classes in the country in mid-November.
(Teachers should be informed that there is extra hazard pay if they are in areas under enhanced community quarantine, and if they are teaching there, they are entitled to additional COVID-19 hazard pay.)
For teachers in ECQ areas, Briones said they may receive P550 allowance daily.
They may receive another assistance -- if they got infected with coronavirus -- on top of their “special hardship allowance” that is offered only to teachers, Briones pointed out.
On Wednesday, the Department of Education announced that the pilot implementation of limited face-to-face classes is set to start on November 15.
Hazard pay to brave a virus with an over 95% survival rate. What heroes!
Don't forget the only way forward out of this pandemic is strict obedience to whatever the government commands for the public safety.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1155900 |
President Rodrigo Duterte has enjoined Filipinos to cooperate with the government to keep them safe and protected against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
In a video message for the Radio-Television Malacañang’s (RTVM) “USWAG, Pinas! Special Edition,” Duterte reminded the public that they would only be safe, if population protection is achieved.
He encouraged them to join the government in its relentless fight against Covid-19 by getting vaccinated against the coronavirus.
“At this point, I’d like to invite our kababayans (fellow countrymen) to look at what your government is doing to get our nation closer to herd immunity,” Duterte said. “Let us remember that no one else is safe until everyone is safe. Let us continue working together towards a healthier and a more protected citizenry.”
What exactly the government doing? Imposing rotating lockdowns, imposing burdensome and unscientific measures like the wearing of face shields and face masks, and mass vaccination. What will happen once the government imposes mandatory vaccination? What will happen when one can neither shop nor work nor move unless one gets the vaccine? A vaccine that has waning immunity effects and which does not actually protect one fully.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1156004 |
There are 642 coronavirus infections in over 20.3 million fully vaccinated individuals in the Philippines as of September 26, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Friday.
Of this number, 126 were infected less than 14 days after the last dose while 516 got the virus more than 14 days after full inoculation.
FDA Director-General Eric Domingo said from the 642, a total of 30 died who are mostly senior citizens with comorbidities.
At least 849 people, meanwhile, were infected before they got their next dose, of whom 92 died.
In total, the number of Covid-19 infections among the vaccinated, both full and partial, including those unverified, is 1,581 while the fatalities are at 128.
The FDA classifies a case as a "breakthrough infection" if the virus has been detected from a person more than 14 days after the completion of all recommended vaccine doses.
"The true breakthrough infections are the 516 because the virus was detected from a person more than 14 days after the completion of doses," Domingo said.
FDA Director-General Eric Domingo is lying. The true number of breakthrough infections is 1,581. Lowering the number to 516 is based on their arbitrary time limit. The fact is if you got a dose of the vaccine and then you got COVID, that is a breakthrough case. If these vaccines actually worked the real number of breakthrough cases would be zero.
65,000 people have had adverse effects after getting vaccinated.
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| https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/08/21/ph-logs-nearly-65k-reactions-to-covid-shots-most-mild |
The Philippines has recorded nearly 65,000 adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccination, majority considered non-serious, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.
This represents only 0.15 percent of the 43.9 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country, FDA director general Eric Domingo said.
Of the total, 62,294 reactions were suspected to be non-serious events, according to Sept. 26 data of the FDA's adverse event following immunization (AEFI) reporting.
Meanwhile, some 2,597 or 0.0006 percent were suspected serious adverse reactions associated with COVID-19 vaccines, data further showed.
"This is within acceptable level and, in fact, mataas ang reporting rates ng ating AEFI sa ating community (we have high reporting rates of AEFI in our community). Sa WHO, kinilala tayo ang Pilipinas (The World Health Organization recognized the Philippines) as having the highest reporting rate ng AEFI dito sa (here in) Asia," he said.
So only .15% of those vaccinated have had an adverser reaction and this is within acceptable levels. But 1.4% of those infected with the virus have died, this is only .03% of the population, and the DOH goes berserk calling it a pandemic. Think about how insane that is.
Remember when people were talking about a COVID baby boom? It seemed logical at the time. Keep everyone locked down at home and procreation would likely follow. But that is not what happened.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1156192 |
The Commission on Population and Development (PopCom) projected an increased birth rate when the Covid-19 pandemic started as more families stayed home and access to family planning methods is limited.
Instead, there was a significant drop in the number of births in 2020, with just 1,516,042 million registered -- the lowest since 1986, which recorded 1,493,995 births.
Based on a preliminary report of the Philippine Statistics Authority as of June 2021, the total is also lower than 2019’s 1.675 million.
The country likewisse saw the lowest number of marriages in the last 20 years in 2020, as 240,183 couples wed last year, or 44 percent fewer than the 431,972 who tied the knot in 2019.
Undersecretary for Population and Development Juan Antonio Perez III attributed the birthrate decline to the combined impacts of fewer marriages, women delaying pregnancies during the pandemic, and the increase in women using modern family planning methods.
“What we feared at the onset of the pandemic did not happen,” Perez said in a news release on Sunday. “From the PSA numbers, it is clear Filipino women are deciding to delay having children, and families are deferring, or avoiding, to have more kids, as they were made well-aware of the possible hardships and inconveniences in securing medical, as well as family planning services, since the pandemic has severely impeded health care systems.”
The country’s fertility rate is currently at 2.5 births per woman, from a high of 6 in the 1960s.
Perez sees the situation normalizing post-pandemic when fertility and the steadily dipping number of marriages will see a possible rebound, similar to what occurred after World War II.
“Filipinos will eventually learn to live with Covid-19. As such, we may see increased births after the era of Covid, with family planning helping couples avoid unplanned pregnancies, unlike in the late 1940s and 1950s when there was no family planning program,” he said.
As for the dip in marriages, Perez opined that Filipinos may have become more “informal” in their relationships.
Not only are births down but so is the marriage rate. But not to fear Filipinos certainly won't be going extinct anytime soon.
With the pandemic and lockdowns now in its second year many communities are once again closing cemeteries for Undas. But Cebu City has a different plan in mind. Instead of closing the cemeteries to all they are considering opening them but only to the vaccinated.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1156371 |
The Emergency Operations Center (EOC) here is mulling the opening of local cemeteries only to individuals who have been vaccinated against coronavirus disease (Covid-19) during the "Undas" or All Souls' and All Saints' Day observance.
Councilor Joel Garganera, EOC head, said the city is open to adopting the idea of the Roman Catholic Church but such proposal is subject to Acting Mayor Michael Rama’s approval.
He said Rama will issue consolidated guidelines for the observance of this year's Undas in the city through an executive order.
“As I said, it’s an idea of the church… We don’t have to be afraid if the city will venture into this idea as long as we are safe against the Covid-19,” Garganera told reporters.
He said Rama will meet with stakeholders to discuss the proposal of the Archdiocese of Cebu to open the cemeteries only for the vaccinated residents.
The councilor did not specify, however, if the vaccinated include those who have just received the first dose or only those who are considered fully inoculated after getting their second dose.
Funny that this idea came from the Church and not from the city council. But then again the government's way has been to shut it all down from the beginning. Those lockdowns will have long lasting damage on the economy.
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| https://www.philstar.com/business/2021/10/11/2133395/philippines-pandemic-scars-seen-turning-foreign-investors |
Economic scars left by the coronavirus pandemic would make the Philippines among the least attractive destinations for foreign direct investments in Asia Pacific over the next decade, according to a new report released Monday.
Out of 14 Asia Pacific economies tracked by UK-based Oxford Economics, the Philippines ranked 13th in terms of ability to attract FDIs, which come in the form of investments from multinational companies opening up shop here and boosting local employment.
This is because pandemic scars run deep in the country. Oxford Economics gave the Philippines an “overall scarring” score of -0.4, matching the score of Taiwan which emerged as the least appealing Asia-Pacific economy for FDIs over the next 10 years.
“This adds further weight to our forecast that the extent of economic scarring caused by the pandemic will be especially large in the Philippines,” the think tank said.
The Philippines also scored poorly in political and business climate with a rating of -0.8 due to its protectionist Constitution that limits foreign investments and persistent difficulties in opening up a business in the country.
Perhaps the economically crippling lockdowns and regulations will soon ease. If you have not noticed the amount of infected people across the country continues to drop.
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| https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/11/21/doh-drop-in-covid-cases-in-ph-not-artificial |
COVID cases in the country are decreasing, the Department of Health said Monday, adding that the decline in infections is not "artificial."
"We have already confirmed that na nakikita natin na bumababa talaga 'yung mga kaso (we are seeing that cases are decreasing) based from not just the number of cases but also the number of admission in our hospitals and the positivity rate," Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire told Teleradyo.
The country's COVID-19 tally stood at 2,666,562 infections, with 12,159 fresh cases reported Sunday.
According to the agency's COVID-19 tracker as of Oct. 9, the bed occupancy rate in the country was at 56.5 percent or 23,073 out of 40,830 beds were occupied. However, the ICU utilization rate was 70.48 percent or 3,137 out of 4,451 ICU beds were filled.
For the past week, the country has been recording less than 11,000 coronavirus cases but the DOH had observed that testing output also fell in many regions.
- The OCTA projects the rate of infections at 400 to 600 per day by December. But who knows? In the meantime a state of emergency remains until September 2022.
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