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Despite the imposition of the longer and stricter blockade in Southeast Asia, coronavirus cases in the Philippines have now reached nearly 120,000, eclipsing Indonesia’s biggest epidemic in the region.
This week, the country again imposed a momentary blockade in Manila and the surrounding areas to curb infection, even when the economy suffered its more internal contraction, 16.5% less in the current quarter compared to the previous year.
This is an example of how the unwelcome easing of restrictions has given the virus the chance to become even stronger, exemplified through the new waves of infection that are now sweeping countries in Asia and parts of Europe. In the Philippines, the virus’s resurgence has been driven by evidence of screw-ups and quarantine protocol errors in front of more than 100,000 foreign employees returning home after wasting their jobs in other countries.
After a strict blockade from mid-March to the end of May, the Philippines reopened its capital even though the new instances were still expanding to a thousand days. As others returned to their offices and families accumulated again, infections increased to 500% in more than two months of relief before the government re-imposed a lockout this week.
The Philippines reported 3,561 new infections on Thursday, bringing the total to 119,460, with 118,753 in Indonesia. The increase in the number of instances is partly due to the construction of surveillance and update tests, which is now the highest in Southeast Asia, the Ministry of Health said in a statement. The Philippines assessed between 1.5% of its population and 0.34% in Indonesia, he said.
President Rodrigo Duterte’s government has eased restrictions too soon, without making sure the local government can insinuate and treat infections, said Anthony Leachon, an internist at Manila Medical Hospital. Problems in hospitals’ ability to settle for patients were also identified too late, he said.
“When we found out, the cases were too massive for us and at a time when we’re running out of budget,” said Leachon, a former adviser to the government’s working group on coronavirus.
A protracted war against the virus will strike the Philippine economy. Record unemployment and a sharp drop in cash sent home through Filipinos, who have lost jobs abroad, have weighed on personal consumption, which accounts for about two-thirds of GDP. On Friday, Fitch Solutions Inc. particularly narrowed its outlook for the Philippines, with a blocking moment likely delaying recovery. It sees a contraction of 9.1% this year compared to the previous estimate of a 2% decrease.
Efforts to involve the virus in the country have been confusing due to an avalanche of returning foreigners who were unemployed due to the pandemic, failed tests and a lack of qualified fitness professionals.
Officials used immediate verification kits, mainly manufactured in China, that promised to deliver effects in minutes to temporarily verify and treat returning foreign personnel, but the kits delivered a large proportion of false negatives, allowing inflamed staff to return home with their families. , unintentionally spreading the virus.
“Excessive use of immediate tests, which we know would possibly be overlooking about one-third of patients who test positive for COVID, would possibly have allowed some asymptomatic carriers to pass,” said Edsel Salvana, an infectious disease specializing in the National Institutes of Health at the University of Philippines Manila. “Although the 14-day quarantine is still in effect for incoming travelers, implementation is variable.”
The Ministry of Health will no longer use immediate control kits and the new lock will give officials time to give clues and treat all infection teams through door-to-door checks, Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said Wednesday. A study by the University of the Philippines based on government knowledge of infections estimated that stricter restrictions can save you up to 70,000 new cases.
But evidence is developing from other countries experiencing resurgence, such as Australia, that the time when locks don’t work because other people are tired of social estrangement and can’t cope with the new economic crisis. In the Philippines, the army and police were sent to checkpoints to impose movement restrictions.
However, Duterte’s government is building confidence in the epidemic, emphasizing that the fitness formula will now be strengthened through the thousands of nurses and doctors returning home who have had medical work abroad in the past. The tendency of medical staff abroad due to poor situations and poor wages at home temporarily left local hospital infrastructure hit by the pandemic.
The government is looking to rent 10,000 additional fitness workers, adding those who have just returned home, with staggered benefits such as threat premium, flexible life insurance and housing, Vergeire said.
“As cases escalated, we are convinced that they can be contained well and successfully in this period,” he said at a virtual briefing on Wednesday, adding that the country now has more testing capabilities, hospital beds and isolation facilities.
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