It will take three weeks to a month before the impact of the stricter quarantine restrictions on the country’s health care amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is felt, the Department of Health said Monday.
Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that it is still too early to assess whether the government can ease the quarantine restrictions as result of the stricter quarantine measure.
“But what we can tell you is we are doing the recalibrated strategies like the one hospital command, ‘Oplan: Kalinga,’ which are being strengthened. The impact of all of these strategies or whatever happened, we will see the effect maybe three weeks to one month,” the Health Undersecretary added, citing the 14-day incubation period of every patient.
“It is not just the cases that we are looking for when we assess a situation. We are also looking at the capacity of the health system. Kapag bumaba ang kaso, lumuwag na ba sa ospital ? We have to look at all of those indications before we can recommend to ease restrictions and before we can say that we are making things better,” Vergeire said.
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