Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said Palawan, Camiguin, Davao Occidental, Dinagat Islands, Tawi-Tawi and Sulu will be under Alert Level 3 until Feb. 15, 2022.On Thursday, the head of a doctor’s group said Metro Manila is not yet ready to be placed under looser quarantine restrictions, even as the number of new COVID-19 cases in the country has dropped.
“And then number two, if ever the government is thinking of downgrading the alert level, I hope that this is not going to happen in the near future because I don’t think that this is the right time to do it,” she added.“So we can probably make a decision [about lowering the alert level]… by the middle of February,” she said.
“Also, the health care workers that were previously affected, or who got infected as well, are already back to work so that actually gives us more people to really man the posts,” she said.“What we have seen during the first week of January, we are now seeing in the provinces, particularly in the Visayas and Mindanao,” she said.
Nationwide, 49 percent of ICU beds, 50 percent of isolation beds, 51 percent of ward beds, and 25 percent of ventilators, were in use.
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