Hike in COVID cases ‘not alarming’

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The Department of Health (DOH) said Thursday there is no cause for alarm over the increase in COVID-19 cases in the country this week. READ:

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All areas remain under low-risk case classification while hospital admission rates continue to be manageable, DOH officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said in an interview with ABS-CBN News.

While the country has gone a long way in terms of managing viral transmission and disease severity, Vergeire remained cautious in saying that COVID-19 had already become endemic, she said. Severe and critical infections, as well as deaths from the disease, also have to be kept at a minimum. As of Nov. 15, around 73 million Filipinos are considered fully vaccinated, but only around 20.8 million have received their first booster dose.

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