MANILA, Philippines – The government will strictly ban home quarantine for COVID-19 patients, Home Secretary Eduardo Ao said Tuesday. In a television interview, Ao said the government planned to put the new policy into effect “within a week. “
“It’s better to isolate everyone, rich and poor,” Ao said, adding that the rich deserve not to worry because the government has turned hotels into isolation centers.
But there would be exceptions, Ao said, especially the elderly who could be transferred to isolation centers.
He said fitness and local government would review the conditions for those who asked to isolate themselves to have valid reasons.
Early Tuesday, Carlito Galvez Jr. , head of the National Working Group against COVID-19, said his organization would push for a ban on home quarantine and seek total isolation from others with the new coronavirus disease. from their homes to isolation centers.
He said his organization will seek the cancellation of government policy authorizing home quarantine and asymptomatic cases, and will push for “aggressive isolation” of COVID-19 patients in the Inter-Agency Working Group on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, the firm government overseeing the Duterte administration’s reaction to coronavirus.
According to Gálvez, the village of Valenzuela and the province of Bulacan either spread coranavirus by banning home quarantine.
He also said that the infection rate and number of cases in the center of Luzon, Calabarzon and some cities in the metropolitan domain of Manila, adding the capital, had declined since home quarantine was discouraged in those domains.
But it turns out there’s something wrong with government oversight of cases: despite the inability of nearly a dozen labs to submit the results, the Department of Health recorded more than 3,000 additional infections on Tuesday, bringing the national count to about 242,000 cases. Of the 115 accredited laboratories, only 81 submitted knowledge to doH on time. The fitness firm said he was in talks with the labs to explain why they couldn’t send the results.
Previously, the DOH had stated that timely submission and notification of instances is mandatory to help the government see the true picture of the epidemic.
On Tuesday, the DOH recorded 3,281 more infections, bringing the national total to 241,987 cases.
This is the third time this month that new daily instances exceed 3,000; However, Tuesday’s figure is the lowest of the three.
Of the additional cases recorded on Tuesday, 2,932 have been converted between August 26 and September 8, while 256 have been converted between August 1 and August 25.
The Metropolitan Area of Manila retained the number of new infections, with 1420, followed by Cavite (263), Negros Occidental (204), Laguna (197) and Rizal (196). The number of COVID-19 survivors amounted to 185,178. however, the number of victims increased to 3,916 with the deaths of 26 other patients.
Of the recently reported deaths, 14 died this month, 8 in August and 4 in July; Nine of the victims were from the Manila Metropolitan Area, 4 from Central Visayas, 3 from Calabarzon, two from Zamboanga, Davao and Mimaropa, and one from Bicol, from Western Visayas and Eastern Visayas. A patient’s apartment remains undetermined.
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