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Citing recommendations from medical journals and health experts, Dizon said mass testing does not guarantee low cases and death, noting that mass testing is also “not feasible nor practical.”
“Ang mass testing ay hindi inire-rekomenda. Ang importante, ang sinasabi ng mga eksperto, kasama na rin ang mga eksperto sa Pilipinas, kailangan ang testing natin ay risk-based at very targeted (Mass testing is not recommended. What’s important, and this is what the experts are saying, including Filipino experts, we need risk-based and very targeted testing),” Dizon said in a Palace briefing.
“Ang pinakaimportante pa rin, na unanimous lahat ng eksperto ay ang pagpapatupad ng minimum health standards, ay pagsusuot ng mask, ang paghuhugas lagi ng kamay, at pagdidistansya. Ang testing kailangan kaakibat nyan ay ang mabilis na pagte-trace at mabilis na isolation (The most important, which all experts are unanimous, is the implementation of mi
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“We are actually seeing an upward trend. In fact the reproduction number has increased to 2.03. It is now above 2 and what that means is we have to recalculate again the trends,” David said in an ANC interview.
The OCTA Research Team’s original projection over the weekend showed that the country may have 8,000 to 9,000 daily cases of COVID-19 by end of March if the current reproduction number of 1.9 is maintained.
“The numbers that we mentioned, 8,000 to 9,000, they have now been up to about 10,000 to 11,000 by the end of this month (March),” David said.
The Department of Health on Monday, March 15 reported a total of 5,404 new COVID-19 infections, the highest so far in 2021.