'Mag-Zoom at Zumba sa bahay': COVID-19 kills but other diseases do too, experts warn

MANILA—Filipinos should watch out for other potential killer diseases other than COVID-19, which has triggered an unprecedented Luzon-wide lockdown to contain the coronavirus pandemic, medical experts

warned.

In 2016, a total of 74,134 Filipinos died of heart diseases and 56,938 others because of stroke. Diabetes also killed 33,295 people that year, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority. “It’s not only COVID-19 that can be health threats to all of us because other diseases don’t stop just because the new coronavirus is spreading,” he told ABS-CBN News.From Jan. 1 to April 11 this year, the DOH recorded 46,427 dengue cases and 3,163 measles cases, Tayag said, citing the epidemiology bureau’s data.

Tayag urged people on lockdown to minimize consumption of canned food, which are high in sodium and preservatives.

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