‘Slight increase in Covid cases not basis for travel restrictions’

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The health department on Tuesday said that the slight increase in the number of Covid cases locally and the World Health Organization report that there are three now variants of the respiratory ailment that originated in China are not bases for the imposition of travel restriction.

“The above means that there is no evidence now that the KP.2 and KP.3 variants are causing severe to critical Covid-19, both locally and internationally. Further assessment is needed to determine transmissibility and capacity to evade immune response,” the DOH said.

The DOH assured that they continue to track Covid-19 case counts and newly designated variants under monitoring, in parallel with international developments.The department also said that it is closely coordinating with international health authorities, and the Bureau of Quarantine is keeping watch over points of entry nationwide.

Severe and critical Covid-19 cases admitted in various hospitals total only 116, based on hospital reports in the DOH Data Collect application.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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