After nearly three years of living with restrictive measures to curb the coronavirus, the National Capital Region and 38 other areas are now under Alert Level 1 or what government considers as the “new normal.'
The deescalation of quarantine restrictions, approved by the government’s coronavirus task force, is a significant development in the Philippines’ fight against a virus that has infected over 3.6 million Filipinos and killed over 56,400.
The health department earlier said while the recent surge fueled by the Omicron variant brought with it the highest number of new infections in the pandemic so far, it also saw the lowest number of severe and critical cases. This was mostly due to increased protection from vaccines and the variant being less severe compared to other earlier forms of COVID-19.Under Alert Level 1, establishments and public transportation are allowed to be fully operational.
“It depends on what degree of security you want. What level of deaths is ‘acceptable’ to society and the government,” Wong said. Experts guiding the government’s pandemic response said the public should also be ready to see restrictions tighten in case infections climb and hospitals come under strain once more.
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