The local government of Navotas City is hoping that the transmission rate and the doubling time of its coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases will slow down after the implementation of its two-week city lockdown.
Dra. Christia Padolina, city health officer and medical director of Navotas City Hospital, said that this is one of the city’s “objective parameters” to know if the lockdown is successful.
“We will appreciate na ‘yung mga barangays na dati matataas ‘yung rate, dapat bumaba sila. Or hindi ganoon kabilis ‘yung doubling time ng cases sa kanilang lugar ,” she said in a virtual press conference on Thursday . On the other hand, Mayor Toby Tiangco said that in his meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases , he admitted that he could not give any assurance that the city’s COVID-19 cases “will be brought down” by placing his city under lockdown.“Of course we have to try something, kasi tumataas . We cannot just continue what we are doing if nakikita mo nang tumataas ,” he said. “We have to try something else.
“‘Yung pagbaba n’yang transmission rate, you will not see it on the 15th day,” Tiangco said, when asked if they will be able to say if the two-week lockdown is successful on its last day.
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