Bealinehx

The local international picture by new cases yesterday:
A quirky list which includes Israel and Lebanon LOL

Raffin

Isn't it!
Israelies mostly had a 3rd booster and now a 4th booster in progress for some.

Raffin

Bearing in mind that the official data is giving an even more incomplete picture of the situation than usual. yesterday there were only 1.7k more NCR cases.

Caloocan and QC each with about 30% more cases on the day.

CL with a 20% increase, 4A 28%.

Provinces around the NCR with between 26 and 37% increases.

WV with a 36% increase, but only up to 561 cases.

Baguio had a 73 increase to 170.

Is the Pope a Catholic?

https://news.abs-cbn.com/video/news/...fficial-number

Premature babies?

https://www.rappler.com/nation/phili...toddlers-2022/

The Philippines trying to be different, show off again.


At last, confirmation of Omicron dominance.


Don't Panic! But unlike Corporal Jones he gives reasons not to.

Raffin

Today a lower weekend testing gave 28,007 new cases, including a backlog of 2.015. Many thousands of cases still to come from backlog. Twelve labs late. Information from the DOH suggests they would have added more than 1,600 cases. Positivity 44.5% from 58.4k tests.

Recoveries 4,471

Deaths 219, 184 RDs
17 Jan, 2 Dec, 5 Nov,26 Oct...169 back to Jan

Active 181,016

Severe 1,464, up 3. Critical 295, down 6

NCR ICU 54%, up 2%. National 41%, up 3%
Ward beds 60%, up 3%

Home quarantine:

Lots of people will be doing this:

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/life...atients/story/

They are considering giving them more help:

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/11/...ome-quarantine

Raffin

New cases nationally were over 5k less yesterday. In each of the three largest regions in terms of cases, NCR, CL and 4A , cases yesterday were down. In the NCR they were down by over 3k. Also in he WV by over 200.
In the NCR 4 of the 6 largest cities had less cases. Paranaque City stood out with 86 more cases.

In the provinces around the NCR only Cavite's increased.... by nearly 250.
Other provinces with significant increases were the CAR, CV and SOCCSKSARGEN.

In other major cities Baguio had 116 more, Cebu City 66 more.

Time to think about this here too?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59944057

Bealinehx

"Time to think about this here too?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59944057"

Yes. Cheaper which could mean a higher rate of testing.
From personal experience the PCR testing I had after contracting Covid in August 2020 revealed positive results for 6 weeks. I had no symptoms after about 8 days and even then I knew that I was not contagious after 10 days. I would like to think that they were being very cautious because of my age (then 73) or that they had yet to acknowledge known data.

Raffin

Today over 4k more announced cases to 32,246, with 11 labs late and a backlog of just over 3k included. Plenty left from there. The late labs would have added about 1,500 more. Positivity at 45.7% from an increased 63.9k tests.

Recoveries 5,063

Deaths 144, 125 RDs
20 Jan, 8 Dep, 31 Aug
The rest 85 back to Jan.

Active 208.164

Severe 1,468, up 4. Critical 298, plus 3

NCR ICU 56%. National 43%, up 2%

The unvaccinated:

We have a little list...

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/tops..._picks&order=1

This could be interesting.
We couldn't get a vaccination with out municipality, after waiting many weeks got them in a neighbouring one. But we registered with them originally.

Gazza-d

We just did a walk in at a local mall.

Raffin

What are they going to do when they get these lists of the unvaccinated? Apart from just sending them to the central government to maybe count, reconcile with vaccination data. Go to their houses, try to persuade them? Shame them locally? Surely not force them to get them?
Many LGUs must be fed up with requests like this when they are busy with vaccinations and the current admin's power is now seen to be on the wane as we approach May. So maybe many won't do much about it. Media reports of surely large numbers of errors in the lists and any untoward incidents may kill it off.

Gazza-d

They will make the lists, they love making lists then do nothing. The barangay van went around the other day announcing a 10pm to 4 am lockdown, young kids must stop driving motorbikes and they must quieten there exhausts from the new year revelries. So what's changed, nothing.

Bealinehx

Making lists is one thing. Who is going to audit the accuracy of such lists?
A pointless exercise because someone thought (yes thought) it would be a good thing to do.

I have worked and lives in a number of former colonies, British and others, and the one thing they all have in common is the love of useless paperwork.

Raffin

Yesterday over 4k cases more than Monday were announced with somewhat less than 3k added to the NCR number. Region 4A was up by about 1k, CL by under just over 200. The Bicol, WV and EV regions each more than doubled their cases.

For NCR cities Paranaque added nearly 400 more to 1,438. QC added over 1k more.

For the provinces around the NCR Laguna and Rizal each added about 600 new cases.
Cavite announced about 500 less. Bulacan nearly 100 less.

Bacolod City's cases went up to 82.

Raffin

Yesterday a record 34,021 new cases announced, but then 3,756 were held over and 7 labs were late. The DOH gave information suggesting they would have added about 2,400. Positivity 47.9% from 78.9k tests.

Recoveries 4,694

Deaths 82, 44 RDs.
37 Jan, 5 Dec, 2 Nov
6 Oct, 13 Sep...the rest,19 going all the way back to April 2020.

Active: 237,387

Severe 1,468. unchanged. Critical 298, unchanged.

NCR ICU 58%, up 2%. National 45%, up 2%
NCR Ward beds 60%

The NCR total slightly down at 17,069 cases.
Given the disruption in testing its total could be very misleading.
CL and 4A regions were each up by a few hundred.

The CAR's nearly tripled to 625.
All other regions showed increases.
Notably in the North the Ilocos and Cagayan numbers nearly doubled to the 800s.
In the South, Caraga, NM and Zamboanga each reported nearly double the previous day's figures.
The Davao region had more than double at 298.

In the six largest NCR cities Caloocan and Pasig each added a few hundred more cases.
Manila and especially QC reported less.

In the provinces around the NCR all except Rizal reported more cases.
Bulacan with over 400 more, Laguna with over 300 more.

Baguio City tripled its cases to 406.
Davao doubled its to 190
Cebu added 80 to 225 and CDO added more than 70 to 117.

Raffin

Another case record today, 37,207 new cases announced, but 1,455 were held over. About 1k more could have come from 8 late labs. Positivity 47.3% from 38.7k tests.

Recoveries 9,027

Deaths 81, 58 RDs
21 Jan, 5 Dec, 14 Oct
12 Sep, 9 Aug and 20 going back to Nov 2020.

Active 265,509

Severe 1,469, up 1 and Critical 300, up 2

NCR ICU 55%, down 3%. National 46%, up 1%

..and, finally, the answer to the question "What is the new policy on face shields?"...is...

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/tops...level-4/story/

Areas under Alert Levels 2 and 3 from 16 Jan



Areas already under Alert Level 3 from today



Note: No areas as of now under Alert Level 4.Would be triggered if Health facilities utilisation
exceeds 70%.

Raffin

NCR figures stable at again slightly in excess of 17k.
The main growth yesterday was in region 4A, which had nearly 1,500 more cases. Most of those from Cavite.
CL added over 300 over the day before.
The regions of Bicol, CV, EV and Davao also had significant increases.

For the cities Baguio, Cebu and Davao each reported significant increases.
Davao had 301 new cases.

Backlog Alert:

Since the start of the year just over 35k positive results were held over, ie not announced on the day, by the DOH. Later they announced just over 5k of them, leaving 30k still unannounced! Some of them will be duplicates etc, but the rest are probably just waiting for more details to be given. Maybe there are also some from December?.
So many and giving a misleading picture.

Latest OCTA report:

They see the NCR and 6 other cities at what they call "critical risk", which is their own classification, not the DOHs.
The NCR and Baguio we know but there are also 5 medium sized cities in their list. Note the high attack rates in some other Visayan cities and in Olongapo.