MANILA (PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The Philippines Department of Health reiterated that the public should learn to live with the new coronavirus, as the country reached the grim milestone of more than 3,000 Covid-19 deaths on Monday (Aug 24).. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MANILA - The Philippines Department of Health reiterated that the public should learn to live with the new coronavirus, as the country reached the grim milestone of more than 3,000 Covid-19 deaths on Monday .Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire pointed out that observance of the minimum health standards was necessary given that experts around the world had yet to see signs of the infection slowing down.
"We hope to finish this pandemic in less than two years, especially if we can pool our efforts together, and with national unity, global solidarity - that's really key - with utilising the available tools to the maximum and hoping that we can have additional tools like vaccines. I think we can finish it in a shorter time than the 1918 flu," he said.
"Hopefully, we would be able to maintain that our health system is not overwhelmed and our case fatality rate is low. We can only do that by doing the minimum health standards. Even if it has to take two years for us to do that as long as we are all safe," she said. There are a total 59,200 active cases, of which 91.5 per cent are mild, 6.1 per cent asymptomatic, 1 per cent severe and 1.4 per cent critical.
As of Aug 10, the virus' reproductive number had been recorded at 0.864 per cent, which translates to a lower transmission rate.
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