He made the announcement during a Cabinet meeting late Monday where he said the violations rose to 14,683 from the last two weeks' record of 40,000 violations.Īño noted that a ban on mass gatherings was being violated and non-compliance with physical distancing rose to 31 percent based on the recorded 2,875 violations. "It must have come from outside and we know that our testing is not that perfect, people can get infected in transit but we only allow those foreigners who are fully vaccinated to enter the country without quarantine, even if may breakthrough infection," he added.Īt least 54,863 violations of the requirement to wear masks properly were recorded from May 22 to June 4, 2022, according to Interior Secretary Eduardo Año. Edsel Salvana said the genetic signatures of the BA.5 and the BA.4 subvariants do not suggest that the variant mutated in the country. We need to trace all sources but definitely, we cannot say that the variant mutated in the country)," Vergeire said.
Kailangan natin ma-trace yung sources but definitely, hindi natin masasabi na dito nanggaling at dito nag-mutate yung variant (Not all positive samples are being sequenced. "Hindi po lahat ng positive samples ay nasi-sequence natin. She added that the detection of the BA.5 subvariant in the country even without an index case coming from abroad does not mean that the variant had mutated here, rather it is because of a lack of tests and sequencing. Vergeire said their travel histories and close contacts are yet to be ascertained, but she did confirm that the three individuals have been tagged as recovered, and their samples were collected on May 3 and 12, respectively. The other Calabarzon case's vaccination status is yet to be verified as well. In terms of vaccination status, one case from Calabarzon is unvaccinated while the other one whose location is yet to be verified is fully vaccinated. Meanwhile, among the three newly detected BA.5 cases, two were from the Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon) Region, and one is still being verified by the DoH. She added that the current focus of the government in its pandemic response is the number of severe and critical cases and the number of hospital admissions, which remains low.Īs of June 5, severe and critical admissions had accounted for only 11 percent or 599 admissions in all hospitals in the country. "We had been flagging na may bahagyang pagtaas sa iba't ibang lugar sa ating bansa, and naipapasabi natin na itong mga pagtaas ay mababa lang, hindi siya significant increases dahil than 10 or 20 cases lang ang pagtaas (We had been flagging that there had been slight increases across the country, and we have been explaining that these increases are low and insignificant because the increase is just by 10 to 20 cases)," Vergeire also said during her regular briefing on Tuesday. Reacting to OCTA's observations, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said they have continually flagged different areas in the country for these increases, but noted that these increases were incremental and not significant.
OCTA uses metrics based on the Covid Act Now consortium led by the Harvard School of Public Health and are different from the official metrics used by the Department of Health (DoH). In a message to The Manila Times, David said the rate of increase remains slow, adding that a "weak" surge of 2,000 to 3,000 cases per day across the country remains a possibility.ĭespite the increase, hospital and intensive-care unit capacity decreased to 21 percent and 18 percent, respectively, from 23 percent and 19 percent over the previous reporting week, making the NCR at low risk. The reproduction rate, which measures the number of persons to whom an infected individual may transmit the virus, also rose from 1.08 to 1.24, considered as high risk under OCTA's own metrics. It also reported a one-week average daily attack rate of 0.61 cases per 100,000 people, slightly higher than the 0.55 in the previous week. The number of tests during the present week was 9,430 tests per day, a decrease from 11,047 tests per day during the week of May 24 to 39. Guido David said the average number of cases per day increased during the current reporting week, from 78 cases per day during the previous reporting week of May 24 to 30 to 86 per day. The slow increase in the positivity rate comes after the Philippine Genome Center detected again additional subvariant cases, including three cases of the BA.5 subvariant.
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