QUALIFY this title: five adjacent cities – Quezon City, Manila, Makati, Taguig and Caloocan – are the epicentre of the pandemic now, representing a quarter of cases, with the rest slightly distributed to the rest of the country.
The data and just a bit of analysis should point to what is the rational approach to stopping the accelerating momentum of Covid-19 cases in our country: lockdown in the strictest manner these five cities for at least two weeks. After all, even Melbourne in Australia has adopted such strict measures even with just 13,000 cases. We can even risk totally lifting business restrictions elsewhere, to make up for the stoppage in these five cities.
Numbers speak for themselves. From July 1 to August 5, 71 consistent with the 3,375 new instances were in the National Capital Region (NCR).
The worst was the city of Quezon. Hospital occupancy rates for Covid-19 instances in Quezon City this view. Across the country, it’s only 53%. For CQ, this is well above the 70% danger point established through the fitness department: 89% for intensive care beds, 80% for insulation and 87% for room beds. When this organization of doctors groaned that they had been hit by the outbreak of Covid-19 cases, they were probably in hospitals in the city of Quezon.
Quezon City has the epicenter of the epicenter for several reasons.
Covid-19 is compatible with the city of NCR until August 5. DOH DATA
“Rally pa more!” Apparently.
First, it is the city with the highest concentration of slums inhabited by illegal occupants, tolerated for so long through Belmontes, which has ruled the largest urban domain in the country for two decades.
What concerns us is that the city of Quezon may be just a Petri dish and a means of distribution for Covid-19: it is mainly a residential city, so its population paints in adjacent cities, basically Manila, Makati and Taguig (i.e. in the global region of Bonifacio City.)
Second, Quezon City has been open in large part since last month, as it has become the venue for ongoing meetings of ABS-CBN staff and stars, as well as communist activists who demonstrate or oppose the anti-terrorism law and the president. Directorate of the State of the Nation of 27 July Duterte. Do you think those activists went to those demonstrations in a personal car?
And third, the existing mayor, Josefina “Joy” Belmonte, proved useless in containing the pandemic in her city, even by exacerbating it by allowing those ABS-CBN Corp meetings. and communists there.
Possibly he would be unfairly quoting the city of Quezon, because the business in nearby Manila on August 1 totaled 5,644, compared to 7,844 in the first. (After Quezon City and Manila, the highest number of instances is one-third, with only 2500 instances). But Quezon City is 4 times larger than Manila and is therefore harder to canopy for an extensive disease campaign.
While covid-19’s aggravation is depressing, we can find some comfort in two things.
First, the number of other people killed by the disease has been reduced, with a total of 2,123 deaths. That’s 19 consistent with millions of our population, quite low compared to those of the United States, Brazil, France and Italy, which are more than 488, 458, 454 and 587 respectively. Indeed, it is difficult for the world’s most complex and rich country to boast of the most evolved establishments to fight epidemics, the United States, has seen 160,000 of its population die through the pandemic in just five months.
Second, there are countries that have triumphed over the pandemic. China had more than 80,000 instances a few months ago. There are now only 837 instances. Italy had 249,000 instances, now there are only 12,646 instances. South Korea controlled to prevent the spread of Covid-19 to 15,000 and took it to only 700 active instances today.
We can do it of course.