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Because of the high vaccination rate in the region, people infected with Covid-19 in the National Capital Region (NCR) are 60 percent less likely to be hospitalized than those in other locations, according to a health official.

In an online press conference, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that the number of Covid-19 cases in Metro Manila increased over the holidays, but that majority of the cases were not hospitalized.

According to Vergeire, decoupling is occurring in the NCR, which means that an increase in infections does not correspond to an increase in the proportion of severe and critical cases.

“We are witnessing two types of Covid-19 patients admitted in our hospitals – people admitted for Covid-19 and cases of incidental Covid-19),” she said, citing the NCR’s high immunization rate.

Patients admitted for Covid-19 were those who tested positive for the disease at the time of admission, whereas incidental Covid-19 cases were those who were admitted for other reasons – acute appendicitis, acute coronary syndrome, cardiovascular disease infarction, intracranial hemorrhage, and trauma from a vehicle accident – and later tested positive.

Meanwhile, Dr. John Wong, a member of the Inter-Agency Task Force Sub-Technical Working Group on Data Analytics, stressed that NCR’s immunization status is “saving the area from a high hospitalization rate.”

“What we’re finding in the NCR is that we have 24 percent fewer hospitalizations than during the Delta surge, and we have roughly 60 percent fewer hospitalizations than non-NCR regions,” Wong added.

“The difference is that during the Delta surge between July and September, the NCR had a considerably higher vaccination rate than non-NCR regions – I believe 75 percent currently, compared to 35 percent in non-NCR regions,” he noted.

In the NCR, around 54% of 1,100 ICU beds, 60% of 4,500 isolation beds, 64% of 4,400 ward beds, and 27% of 1,000 ventilators allocated to patients with Covid-19 are now in use.

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