MANILA, Philippines — Hospitals need to allocate more beds for COVID-19 patients, but don’t have much need for ventilators and oxygen, as there are few severe and critical coronavirus cases,
Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said at Saturday’s Laging Handa briefing that the DOH was “monitoring certain areas that have not allocated enough Covid beds.”
Vergeire said the health-care utilization rate in most regions is at moderate risk, between 50 and 70 percent.The department’s latest case bulletin showed that intensive care unit beds in use nationwide were at 52 percent; isolation beds, also at 52 percent; and ward beds, at 53 percent. Ventilators in use nationwide were at 24 percent.
According to the independent OCTA Research group, the average daily attack rate in the capital region—or the number of individuals infected per 100,000 population—was 83.93 during the period of Jan. 15 to Jan. 21, a further drop from 93.82 from Jan. 14 to Jan. 20 and 111.47 from Jan. 12 to Jan. 18. The reproduction number, or the number of people a person with COVID-19 can infect, was highest in Davao City at 4.04.
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