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Surges are being monitored by the government in 22 regions outside of Metro Manila.

Malacanang said Wednesday that the government is monitoring the rate of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) infections in 22 regions outside Metro Manila.

Acting presidential spokesperson Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said authorities are working closely with the regional Interagency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) and are closely monitoring the following areas:

– Calabarzon
– Central Luzon
– Ilocos Region
– Dagupan City
– Cordillera Administrative Region
– Baguio City
– Cebu Province
– Cebu City
– Lapu-lapu City
– Mandaue City
– Iloilo Province
– Iloilo City
– Bacolod City
– Cagayan de Oro City
– Davao City
– General Santos City
– Ormoc City
– Naga City
– Western Samar
– Tacloban City
– Biliran
– Zamboanga del Sur

“What we’re witnessing now is that, while growth rates in Metro Manila and some locations in Regions 4-A and 3 are declining, we’re seeing stronger growth rates in those (above-mentioned) areas,” he said in a CNN Philippines interview.

According to Nograles, these locations of concern require more hospital bed capacity for Covid-19 patients in order to keep their respective health care usage rates (HCUR) from reaching 70%.

Meanwhile, the government is expanding telemedicine services in the affected areas in order to better prepare patients who will be placed in home isolation if the number of cases continues to rise.

“We reserved the beds for severe, critical, and moderate instances, similar to what happened here in NCR,” Nograles explained. “Mild and asymptomatic patients can perform home isolation.”

The government is also expected to declare the Metro Manila alert level for February 1 to 15 over the weekend, according to the official. He stated that an IATF-EID meeting will be held on January 27.

“That’ll be one of the subjects we’ll be talking about. We’ll look at the bed usage rate, the average daily attack rate (ADAR), and the two-week growth rate to see what the figures say “he stated

“Perhaps we’ll have to make a choice in Metro Manila over the weekend,” he said, “since the weekend is closer to February 1 and what we want to do is make a decision on alert levels as soon as February 1 as feasible.”

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