MANILA (Reuters) – Philippines reported nearly 4,000 new cases of coronavirus on Thursday, a record number of infections for the fourth time this month, while President Rodrigo Duterte is ready to announce a primary replacement in his government’s reaction to COVID-19.
The increase in the number of others can cause problems in the Philippine health system at a time when several giant public and personal hospitals in the Metropolitan Manila area have reported that their extensive care facilities (ICUs) have reached their full capacity.
Manila Mayor Francisco Domagoso on Thursday closed a public hospital to new patients to prevent the spread of coronavirus that has inflamed many hospital employees.
The 3,954 infections reported on Thursday represented a sharp increase since the record 2,539 cases recorded on 8 July, according to the knowledge of the Ministry of Health.
The Philippines has the highest number of coronavirus infections in Southeast Asia after Indonesia, with nearly five times the number of cases at 89,374 and the number of deaths doubled from 1983 since a complicated blockade was reduced in June.
Carlito Gálvez, former rate army leader of the Coronavirus National Task Force, said an inevitable case jump after the government dropped the brakes to allow for a slow return to paintings and advertising activity.
“When we open the economy, there will be more contacts, that’s the result,” he said.
The government said it would increase coronavirus verification in the midst of a complaint, which is too slow to check and insinuate infections. His goal is to take out 10 million checks until next year, but he has finished just over a tenth of them to date.
Officials also said the government is building more quarantine services to isolate patients with mild or nonexistent symptoms and prevent them from widespread network transmissions.
Written through Karen Lema; Edited through Martin Petty
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