ni Mary Gutierrez Almirañez | March 30, 2021
Inirekomenda ng Department of Health (DOH) na i-extend ng isa pang linggo ang enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) sa NCR Plus Bubble upang mapigilan ang paglobo ng COVID-19, ayon sa pahayag ni Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire ngayong umaga, Marso 30.
Aniya, "One week really is short. We have recommended an extension but of course we have to balance it off with the economy that's why we need enough basis for us to have this extension. As I've said, we won't even see any changes in our numbers.
We might see more numbers after this 1 week because what we're seeing right now are the numbers 2 weeks prior to this week. We are still going to see an accumulation to these numbers for the next 2 weeks."
Paliwanag pa niya, "Why so? It takes about 3 days for people to decide if they would want to seek consult for their symptoms. It takes another 2 days for them to get tested and the waiting for the results and then eventually being isolated. It takes 9 days in average. Thus 9 day causes a lot of transmission already."
Iginiit din niyang posibleng umabot sa 430,000 ang aktibong kaso ng COVID-19 sa pagtatapos ng Abril kung hindi inagapan ang pagpapatupad ng ECQ sa NCR Plus Bubble.
Nauna na ring idineklara ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na isasailalim sa modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) at general community quarantine (GCQ) ang iba pang lugar sa bansa dahil sa patuloy na pagtaas ng COVID-19. Sa huling tala ng DOH, umabot na sa 10,016 ang nagpositibo sa virus at sa kabuuan ay pumalo na sa 731,894 ang naitalang kaso.