DOH says PH now ‘low risk’ for COVID-19; OCTA disagrees

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While the country is not yet back to pre-surge levels, DOH said the Philippines could now be classified as “low-risk” for COVID-19, after the national case growth rate slowed down and the daily infection rate declined. | PDMChiuINQ

Another gauge is the proportion of hospital beds, particularly those in their intensive care units , which are occupied in relation to the total available for a town, city, province or region.The OCTA Research, however, said an area defined as low risk should have an Adar of less than one.

For OCTA, only an Adar of less than 1 per 100,000 population, per day, could be considered low risk and that “is what other countries use,” according to David.He said his group generally looks at the risk level “from a regional perspective rather than a national perspective” since there will naturally be varying degrees of exposure to COVID-19 across the nation.

She said the health department’s data showed that the Philippines’ case growth rate fell to -9 percent during the June 13 to June 26 period, from a 15-percent growth rate from May 30 to June 12. “The challenge now is that while we open up our economy, we have to have safeguards,” De Guzman said, adding that if the country sustained its efforts in curbing the spread of the virus, the decline in cases would continue and could even speed up.

He said vaccinations were still below the targets and the threat of the highly transmissible Delta variant remained.Also on Thursday, the DOH recorded 5,795 new COVID-19 cases, which brought the country’s total caseload to 1,418,337.

 

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PDMChiuINQ Low risk na pala tayo, edi buksan na ang amusements parks? Pati arcades. Lols. Bat may restrictions pa? Low risk na pala? Lols again

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