Early stages of COVID-19 surge has started in NCR — OCTA

OCTA stressed that timely and appropriate interventions that would include lockdowns augmented by expanded testing and contact tracing should be in place to deal with the “impending surge” in Metro Manila.

The researchers also noted that the delay in government response led to the deadly surge of COVID-19 cases last March. “Lets us learn from the lessons of other countries where effective control of the epidemic was lost because institutions acted too little and too late. If Delta is driving this surge, we need to crush it with lockdowns and with expanded testing and tracing before it explodes and creates a catastrophic surge,” the group emphasized.

“Let us not wait for the numbers to explode before we act… We have a window of opportunity to reverse this surge. Let us act decisively and collectively. We need to act now,” OCTA added.that was first detected in India and is being blamed for the surge in cases in many nations. Of this number, 23 were detected locally and the rest are from returning overseas Filipinos. Eight cases are still active.

As of Wednesday, the country has 47,996 active cases of COVID-19, including 6,560 additional cases. The DOH tracker showed that Metro Manila currently has 8,212 active COVID-19 cases.

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