More news about how the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines is being handled by the public and the government.
While there has been a slight uptick in cases there has been no serious cases recorded.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1175690 |
No severe coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases so far have been recorded by health authorities despite having an uptick of active cases, Vaccine Expert Panel member, Dr. Rontgene Solante, said Wednesday.
In a televised public briefing, Solante cited those Covid-19 patients needing oxygen treatment and experiencing respiratory failures have been significantly reduced, following the surge caused by the coronavirus variant.
“Well, one good thing, one good news is that despite na nakikita natin na may kaunting uptick ang mga kaso ngayon (seeing a slight uptick now in cases), we have never seen any more Covid cases na talagang nagsi-severe (that are really severe),” he said.
The OCTA Research Group earlier said Covid-19 cases in Metro Manila have climbed to 1.4 percent this week, compared to 1.2 percent in the previous week.
The one-week average daily attack rate also increased from 0.51 to 0.52, however it remained at low risk.
“So our assumption to this is that, yes, this new variant of concern, the Omicron, can be highly transmissible. But I don’t think this is the same variant of concern that we had with Delta na talagang mas malala ang presentation, na mataas din ang mortality (has really bad presentation and the mortality rate is high),” Solante said.
So, the new variant is highly transmissible but its effects are negligible. Of course the DOH will go on to say that the vaccination program has made this variant manageable and then bring out 3 unvaccinated people who died from the virus.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1175703 |
The city government issued a warning anew to those who remain unvaccinated, citing three recent deaths from the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) involved individuals who chose not to get the jabs.Data from the City's Covid-19 Task Force showed the deaths occurred from May 22 to 28.Dr. Michelle Schlosser, the task force's spokesperson, said two of them were senior citizens and the third was an adult."They all suffered from the severe type of Covid-19 and, since they were unvaccinated, they were not protected from the severity of the disease," Schlosser said over the Davao City Disaster Radio on Thursday.
By this time hopefully everyone knows that COVID-19 by itself is not deadly. That makes this news report more fear mongering. See how they do not tell us anything about these people except they were unvaccinated? How old were they? What comorbidities did they have? Without that information its pointless to talk about them dying from COVID-19.
Some health experts are recommending the state of emergency be lifted.
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| https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/06/03/22/doctors-back-lifting-of-public-health-emergency |
Now is not yet the time for government to lift mask mandates in the country, a health expert said Friday.
On Thursday, an expert said the Philippines should wait a little more before lifting the requirement to wear face masks in public spaces, despite the relatively low numbers of new coronavirus infections.
(That's what we are suggesting, let's not remove our mask mandates yet.)
(We have seen how important and effective face masks are. In fact, we were talking among ourselves about how we don't have a spike in cases despite the presence of more infectious COVID-19 subvariants in the country, Primarily because the wearing of face masks helps.)
(Look at the other countries, because they lifted mask mandates, they now have a lot of COVID-19 cases.)
(We still have a low number of cases. So we support the lifting of the state of public health emergency.)
“We approve of it na alisin na para sa ganoon ay medyo maging masigla na rin ang ating ekonomiya (so the economy can be lively again because) kasi we have to really lift up our economy,” she said.
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| https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/06/04/2186055/lifting-state-calamity-status-will-have-effects-pandemic-policies-doh |
Now the DOH is predicting that the surge will come in August because of waning immunity in the population. There is no end to this circus.Health Undersecretary and Spokesperson Maria Rosario Vergeire said Saturday that the government should properly study the effects of lifting the state of calamity brought about by the onset of COVID-19, as it will have implications on policies related to the pandemic.
"There are many operational implications if we lift the state of calamity because there are policies, such as the emergency use authority of vaccines and medicines for COVID-19 which will be affected," Vergeire said Filipino during a Laging Handa briefing on Saturday.
The Department of Health official added that the benefits of public and private medical workers are also tied to such status.
"There is a need for the government to study this well," she said.
Vergiere noted they are also closely monitoring the infections, citing projections of experts who said the waning immunity of the population amid the low uptake of booster jabs may raise hospitalization rates this August.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1606933/fwd-duque-to-convince-next-admin-to-retain-covid-19-face-mask-rule |
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Monday said he will convince the next administration to retain the COVID-19 mask rule.
While it would be up to the next administration to set up their own COVID-19 protocols, Duque said there is a need to “build on the gains” of the outgoing administration in terms of the pandemic response.
“We will still convince them [next administration] to continue on and build on the gains of this administration,” Duque said in an ANC interview.
As far as the Duterte administration is concerned, Duque said the face mask requirement will stay until the President’s last day in office.
According to Duque, Filipinos’ compliance with the wearing of masks “synergizes” the government’s efforts in curbing the spread of the virus.
This was among the reasons Duque attributed to the Philippines’ increased ranking in Nikkei Asia’s latest COVID-19 Recovery Index, where the country climbed to the 33rd spot among 120 nations.
“It really synergizes or compliments our vaccination to curb the transmission. That’s why it is no wonder that our transmission rate is very low,” Duque said.
The vaccine will also be here indefinitely even after the pandemic has ended.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1176107 |
The Department of Health (DOH) plans to institutionalize the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccination program into its regular programs for public health.
In an online media forum Tuesday, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said they want the inoculation program against Covid-19 to be part of the routine work of the local governments or the local health units.
"(We’re no longer using the large-scale vaccination centers now because we brought to the community the vaccination centers. When it’s closer to the community, it’s closer to the people, it’s more accessible to them, they’re more likely to get vaccinated),” she said.
DOH – Technical Advisory Group member and infectious disease expert Dr. Edsel Salvaña noted bringing the centers closer to more targeted communities would make the country’s vaccination drive more efficient.
More people could be inoculated through private clinics and doctors once Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers pursue their certificates of product registration.
Salvaña said this would “decrease the amount of burden on the government.”
“(That’s a big help and more convenient also) if the people can get it from their doctors, the same way that any of these large vaccine programs in the country are already done by both the private and the public sectors,” he added.
Sounds like COVID-19 vaccinations will become a yearly thing much like flu vaccinations. It's no surprise since this is what was being talked about back in 2020.
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