Health Undersecretary Rosario Vergeire said areas under moderate risk can be placed under COVID-19 Alert Level 2.
FOUR cities in Metro Manila have been classified by the Department of Health (DOH) “moderate risk”, as new COVID-19 cases continue to increase.
This, said Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire was based on the cities’ two-week growth rate, average daily attack rate, and their health systems capacity.
She identified the cities as:
Marikina City
Pasig City
Pateros
Quezon City
San Juan
“Ang kanilang growth rate ay lumalagpas ng 200 percent dahil nanggagaling sa mababang numero, biglang nagkaroon ng kaso, kaya tumaas ang growth rate,” Vergeire said in a televised briefing.
“Computation ’yan at hindi mabahala pero kailangan vigilant tayo lahat.”
Vergeire said areas under moderate risk can be placed under COVID-19 Alert Level 2.
But she added that the data did not indicate a need for stricter quarantine restrictions amid the relatively low number of COVID patients being admitted in hospitals.
Metro Manila and others areas are under Alert Level 1, the loosest of the country’s five-tier alert levels, until the end of the month.
“For now, escalation to Alert Level 2 hindi pa natin nakikita. Although we cannot say by next week biglang nagtaasan. That’s the time we are going to decide and that’s going to be IATF to decide,” she said.
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