Half of Filipinos do not have access to a nearby primary care facility or one that patients can reach within 30 minutes, according to the Department of Health.
Atty. Joey Lina
The trend is disturbing and our scientific researchers see it as a portent of horrific times ahead.
For three days since last Friday, the three highest single-day tallies so far this year of COVID cases nationwide were reported – 4,578 new cases on Friday, 5,000 on Saturday, and 4,899 on Sunday.
The 5,000 new infections last March 13 is the largest single-day number recorded in around seven months, or since August 26, 2020, when the daily recorded number of new cases hit 5,277. And the numbers are projected to keep rising, even way beyond the highest daily tally so far of 6,958 cases reported on August 10, 2020.
OCTA Research fellow Professor Guido David was my guest last Sunday in my Teleradyo program Sagot Ko ‘Yan, and he said that the daily COVID infections could reach 5,000 to 6,000 in Metro Manila alone by the end of this month, based on a 1.95 reproduction rate.
Hospitals are getting full with COVID-19 cases. Please protect yourself and your family, PGH spokesperson Dr. Jonas del Rosario said in a Facebook post.
Dr. del Rosario also urged the public to follow health protocols as the country has been reporting an increase in new COVID-19 cases.
Dr. Dennis Ordoña, head of COVID department of the East Avenue Medical Center, said that while the hospitals ICU has always been full, they witnessed an increase in the trend of COVID cases. So what is happening now is we are allocating more beds for COVID patients which were previously allocated for non-COVID patients, Dr. Ordoña added.
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