MANILA—The coronavirus pandemic will trigger a “perfect storm” of disease outbreaks in the Philippines if it rages through the flu season beginning June, an infectious diseases specialist warned on We
dnesday.
“With a pandemic of coronavirus plus other disease outbreaks that are vaccine preventable, this will create a perfect storm,” Co told an online forum by the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines. COVID-19 cases continued to rise in the Philippines with a total of 8,212 infections and 558 deaths as of Wednesday. At least 1,023 patients have also recovered from the disease.
“It makes no sense to extend the extension if we’re not going to do something about the data,” said Co, who cited the need to test to identify COVID-19 patients showing no symptoms of the virus.Co also cautioned against looking at herd immunity, where a big portion of the population will have to be infected and develop natural immunity, as a strategy to defeat COVID-19.
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