President Rodrigo Duterte may simply announce “major changes” in the government’s reaction to coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), Malacaang said wednesday, as the number of infections continues to increase.
Photo through President Rodrigo Duterte MALACA-ANG
The Palace’s spokesman, Harry Roque Jr., said the Covid-19 national working group already had a council in Duterte, but that it will probably be appealed through local government units.
The president, he added, would announce his resolution on the new quarantine ratings on Thursday.
“All recommendations are an initial topic for completion on Thursday,” Roque said in an interview with CNN Philippines.
“But let’s say things probably wouldn’t be the same. There will be primary adjustments to our pandemic reaction,” he added.
The palace official said the adjustments would affect policies to involve the fitness crisis. These come with larger testing and revitalized follow-up as the country’s functions are higher.
“It is both the classification that will matter as the answers, the new and invigorated responses that we will have opposed to the Covid-19 pandemic,” Roque said.
“People will now see the difference in the answer we will have. Now it’s absolutely revitalized. Part of that is that strengthened ability, and now we have the ability to do what we’re looking for from the beginning,” he added.
Roque said the government would conduct more and less expensive tests on a basis, more than 30,000 daily tests it can already do.
“Massive targeted tests involving clustered tests that will multiply our actual tests to 10 and reduce the burden of PCR (chain reaction through polymer) tests to just three hundred P consistent with son,” Roque said.
“So other people will see that there will be specific evidence expanded beyond the numbers they wouldn’t have imagined,” he added.
The average PCR load is approximately P3,000. This can happen to the P300 with organizational controls, where a kit will be used to control 10 people.
“We will have pilot tests after the announcement of the new classifications and it will be a joint effort of the government and the personal sector through the ARK (Rapid Antibody Test Kit) assignment,” Roque said.
Roque stated that the instance duplication rate and extensive attention span will be the destination of the Manila metropolitan area, whether it remains under the network’s overall quarantine prestige or is increased to a stricter quarantine level.
“Our case duplication rate is fine. Now we’re at 8.9. We’ve taken a step forward because the longer the better,” Roque said. “It’s the ability to provide extensive attention to the challenge because [for] beds in the ICU (extensive care unit), reached 80.”
“If we have to do that, we’ll build more beds in the ICU as long as the instance doubling rate stays under control,” he added.
The Ministry of Health had previously warned that the country’s fitness formula “on the brink of overwhelmingness” as hospitals, specifically in the metropolitan domain of Manila and Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon), lacked beds for patients with Covid-19.
Last week, Metro Manila reported that the occupancy rate of its hospitals is 88.42% for room beds, 80.96% for isolated beds, 74.22% for intensive care beds and 46.97% for mechanical fans.