As an economist, I taught not to compare apples to oranges. At first, it didn’t make much sense for me not to compare, for example, the Philippine economy with that of the United States. “In my early days there as a graduate student, I boasted to my Fellow Americans how much less expensive a soda can is in the Philippines, which costs up to 3 times less here, but in the following weeks, I was informed that wages can be up to five times higher than the average source of income for a Filipino worker.
That’s when I learned that I might not be able to compare the figures independently in all spaces, that the figures should be analyzed in opposition to each other, that is, a can of soda in the Philippines is less expensive than in the United States, but only in absolute terms. In relative terms, this drink is more expensive in our country because, as a proportion of someone’s salary, more Americans can buy more cans there than Filipinos here.
Similarly, Covid-19’s absolute statistics will not be radically compared to the rest of the world. In short, it cannot be said that the pandemic is now worse in the Philippines than in Indonesia since as of 17 August there were 164,474 others definitively tested here, compared to 141,370 there. It has not even been described that our scenario was higher a week ago compared to our Southeast Asian neighbor, where he had the highest overall in the region.
Nor do they deserve other people to get involved that the total number of deaths in the Philippines due to this coronavirus was, on the same date, 2681, which puts us ranked 32nd in the world. This absolute figure was far from some of our neighbors, Singapore, with only 27 of its population succumbing to the disease, which ranks 141st in the world.
In terms of relative statistics, i. e. the proportion of other inflamed people to the general population, the Philippines had only 1,498, consisting of 1 million inhabitants, ranking us 97th in the world. The scenario is the worst in Qatar, where the figure is 41,088. San Marino’s microstate had the highest proportion of deaths per Covid-19 with 20,595, compared to 24 in the Philippines, which places us 101st.
If we look at global averages, the scenario in the Philippines is higher than that of more than a portion of all countries, with the median total number of instances consisting of 1 million inhabitants being 2,807. And there have been many more deaths as a proportion of the world’s population at age 99.
Today, it might also seem disconcerting that the daily domestic cases of Americans who tested positive for Covid-19 are thousands, compared to the heaps when the Ministry of Health officially began publishing those statistics. We will need to be aware that they are a result of the philippines’ greatest testing capacity. Simply put, the more tests our country administers, the greater the outcome of the number of other infected people.
It should be added that our daily totals come with recent and overdue measurements. More clearly, when 3140 new infections were recorded last Sunday, 80% of which have contracted coronavirus in the last 14 days, it is not that thousands and thousands of Filipinos become inflamed every day.
Although our Covid-19 statistics are not as bleak as they are, the risk remains genuine and the virus persists with us. Therefore, apart from the same old protocol of fitness and non-public protection of social estating, common hand Wash and dress in a mask and face protector, we will have to stick to the latest directive of the World Health Organization to avoid additional contractions and contagions, which is to avoid the 3 C-put: crowded places, close and confined strokes and enclosed spaces.
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