Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri on Friday declared a lockdown at the Senate building after seven senators and several employees tested positive for COVID-19 since the start of the 19th Congress last month. READ:
Senators JV Ejercito and Nancy Binay announced yesterday they had both tested positive for the coronavirus.
Furthermore, all Senate employees shall work from home and need not report to the Senate on Monday, Aug. 22, he said.“Please stay safe and healthy everyone. Together we shall fight this virus and continue to deliver government service as efficiently as possible,” said Zubiri, adding that for this week alone, 47 people tested positive.
Meanwhile, the independent OCTA Research Group said the weekly COVID-19 positivity rate of the National Capital Region has gone down to 15.3 percent. Despite this, after the health care utilization rate in NCR rose to 40 percent from 36 percent, the ICU occupancy rate also increased to 36 percent from 33 percent.
Their metrics serve to alert travelers about health threats around the world and advise on how to keep from getting infected. US-CDC metrics use the number of cases over the past 28 days per 100,000 population, triangulated with their testing data.
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