On Thursday, Malacaang alluded to “major changes” in the government’s reaction to coronaviruses as of August 1.
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. SIMEON CELI JR./ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO
President Rodrigo Duterte hoped to announce the adjustments in a late-night briefing.
However, Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr. refused to reveal the main points of the plan and said he needed to get ahead of the president.
But he said that once the adjustments are in place, “it may not be as usual,” especially in the metropolitan domain of Manila, which remains the epicenter of coronavirus 2019 or Covid-19 disease.
“In the next national action plan, we will allow local governments to play a more important role. We will also ask the personal sector to play a more important role. And we ask the individual to respect the minimum criteria of physical fitness, such as the bare minimum, “Roque added.
On Monday, Roque announced that Metro Manila would be a “life experience” in the government’s “revitalized” reaction to this month’s pandemic.
But at Thursday’s press conference, he clarified that “Metro Manila will be a living experience,” saying that there will only be Covid-19 pilot tests or organizational tests.
Thursday’s account of 85,486, which is the screening of 85,000 researchers from the University of the Philippines at the end of July.
Metro Manila led with 728 cases.
According to Department of Health data, Metro Manila has reported approximately 47,000 cases since the outbreak began, of which approximately 11,000 have been recorded in the past two weeks.
It has killed at least 1,000 people, the Department of Health reported.
Economic leaders have called for the metropolitan domain of Manila and the neighboring southern tagalog to be kept in general network quarantine (GCQ) to stimulate advertising activity, as these two regions account for 67% of the economy.
As the number of Covid-19 instances continues to increase, the Department of Health reported that hospitals in the Manila metropolitan domain and transitive repair and tracking (TTMF) services are reaching critical capacity levels.
The DoH Covid-19 tracker said that as of July 28, the National Capital Region (Metropolitan Manila) had a bed occupancy rate of 77.6%, meaning that 5056 of the 6602 available beds are complete of probable, suspected and shown Covid-19. . Case.
The beds in the intensive care unit had 73.59%, or 379 of 515 beds in total. The insulation beds had 82.35% (2,749 out of 3,338) and the room beds 85.99% (1,381 out of 1,606).
Seventy-one hospitals reported that their occupancy rates are 70 or higher of use.
TTMF was also reaching the breaking point, with 41 cents according to the use of pennies in the local government unit that managed the tracking centers and transitional solution.
The Department of Health said that strengthening the One Hospital Command system, which consolidates referrals from public and personal hospitals and TDSs into a singles network, would mean hospital decongestion and that patients who do not require care at the top can simply be transferred to those comforts of transitional resignation. Concern.
He said he is also accelerating the structure of two transition hospitals, a 250-bed facility at East Avenue Medical Center and a 130-bed facility at Quirino Memorial Medical Center.
Undersecretary of Health and Spokesperson Maria Rosario Vergeire said that despite Covid-19’s revenue accumulation, the workload remains manageable.
Most mayors of the metropolitan domain of Manila requested that the GCQ of the region extend beyond July, the president of Manila City Council said.
“We have informed the regional director of diLG (Department of Government and Local Government) that mayors are expanding the GCQ,” the mayor of Para-aque town, Edwin Olivarez, said in a radio interview.
Olivarez said mayors were pushing for more localized padlocks, which he said had been to contain the virus.
If Metro Manila did so at gcQ, Olivarez said he would call for a stricter implementation of fitness protocols such as face masks, physical estrangement and curfew.
On Thursday, Malacaang thanked China for its commitment to prioritise the Philippines once it has developed a Covid vaccine.
Roque said he was pleased that the advance in dating between the Philippines and China has yielded positive results.
China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin promised Tuesday that China would prioritize the Philippines. Beijing develops a Covid-19 vaccine.
Wang made the day after President Duterte revealed in his fifth State of the Nation confrontation that he had begged Chinese President Xi Jinping to allow the Philippines to be among the first to receive a vaccine.
With RED MENDOZA AND JAN ARCILLA