months of the enhanced community Capital Region,” Vergeire said. quarantine allowed the country to ramp up its health system capacity. The DOH, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), “There is no particular profile of and concerned local government units cases seen in our data. The recent increase is due to clustering in barangays have intensified their contact tracing in the National Capital Region and in and isolation protocols to contain the Cebu and in workplaces in the National identified clusters. (PNA)
PH winning fight vs. Covid-19: Palace By Azer Parrocha
Malacañang urged the public not to be frightened by the report that the country has recorded the highest single-day spike in coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases in the country at 2,434 which raises the total number of cases to 44,254 as of Sunday. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said while the Palace is “saddened” by the jump in single-day cases, he emphasized the need to relax quarantine protocols to jumpstart the economy. “Marami po ang kinabahan sa ulat na ito na maging kami ay nalungkot nang una naming narinig ito. Ngunit hindi po tayo dapat panghinaan ng loob, tuloy po ang laban (There were many felt nervous about this report and even us are saddened by it. But we should not be discouraged, the fight continues),” he said in a virtual presser on Monday.
severe, 0.1 percent were critical, and 5.1 percent were asymptomatic. Roque said the country’s positivity rate is currently at 7.3 percent which is still within the benchmark of the World Health Organization (WHO). He explained that there was “no other alternative” for the government but to open the economy to protect workers and businesses from losing their source of livelihood.
“Kung hindi pa natin mabubuksan, eh baka mamaya, buhay nga tayo, mamamatay naman tayo dahil wala tayong hanapbuhay. (If we won’t Despite the increase in Covid-19 open the economy, we might die not cases, he said 94.3 percent of them because of the virus but because we were mild cases, only 0.5 percent were have no livelihood),” he said. July 4-10, 2020 |
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