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As Metro Manila shifts to general community quarantine in a few days, here's a timely piece analyzing how the country is doing in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As we end the second month of what is now the world’s longest and probably most bizarre lockdown, it is timely to take stock of how the country is doing in the face of the pandemic.
From a high of 24 in the last week of March, deaths have gone down to a daily average of 3, below the average at the start of the ECQ. Given currently low occupancy rates, there is no basis for the IATF-IED requirement that private and public hospitals raise bed capacity and acquire ventilators – and to make this a condition for exit from the ECQ!Stockpiles of PPEs are accumulating in hospitals. Inventory of PPEs in monitored hospitals more than doubled to tripled in the last month, indicating oversupply .
In assessing whether the country should get out of the lockdown, the government should consider not one but several measures of where we stand in the current pandemic.
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