The country logged 1,302 new COVID-19 cases yesterday—the third consecutive day that the daily tally breached 1,000 cases, the Department of Health said. Read more👇
At least 13 fatalities were likewise recorded, bringing the death toll to 60,578.
“The country’s COVID-19 response actions, along with actions for all other non-COVID health matters, continue through senior DOH officials supervising specific bureaus, offices, and units. We await and are ready for the announcement of the next Secretary of Health,” the department added.“The number one reason for this is warning immunity. Number 2 is the new variants,” Rye said.
“[But] there’s no need to lock down, there’s no need to escalate the alert levels. There is a surge. We need to take care of ourselves….We do believe in OCTA that the peak is coming soon and that cases will decline after that peak,” Rye added. “To start with, we never got over the pandemic of poor, if any, free public health. The last major upgrade of our public health system exemplified by the resources poured into PGH predates the current shambles by three generations,” the new President said, referring to the Philippine General Hospital.
Vergeire, an undersecretary and a career executive service officer II, is also the head of the National Vaccination Operations Center.