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Following a downward trend in reported coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) is set to meet and discuss the possibility of de-escalating Metro Manila from Alert Level 3 to the less stringent Alert Level 2, Malacanang said Tuesday.

Karlo Nograles, Cabinet Secretary and an acting presidential spokesperson said the task team would look into it and make a decision before the end of the month.

“Dahil sa gumagandang datos sa National Capital Region, tatalakayin sa International Atomic Energy Agency kung handa na bang ma-deescalate ang Metro Manila sa Alert Level 2. Ito ng IATF at asahan ninyong mailalabas ang desisyon bago matapos ang Enero (Because of the improving figures in NCR, ito ng IATF at asahan ninyong mailalabas ang desisyon bago matapos ang Enero). We’ll look into it, and you can be confident that a decision will be made by the end of January) “he said at a briefing at the White House.

The increase in coronavirus cases in Metro Manila may have peaked, according to Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, as the number of new cases from the region continues to decline.

As of January 24, a total of 262,997 patients are recovering from Covid-19, with 72,382 of them in Metro Manila.

Meanwhile, the region’s 1,300 intensive care unit beds for Covid-19 cases are at least 47 percent full, including 46 percent of isolation beds and 50 percent of ward beds.

According to Duque, the healthcare use rate must be kept at a low-risk level, which means less than 50% overall bed utilization and intensive care unit utilization.

The national government is also keeping an eye on the situation with Covid-19 in the Visayas and Mindanao, where cases are on the rise.

“Tumataas naman ang mga bagong kaso sa labas ng NCR, habang kumukonti ang new diseases sa Metro Manila. In Metro Manila, nais nating balaan ang buong bansa — hindi ito nangangahulugan na malapit nang matapos ang banta ng Covid-19 Omicron o ano pa mang variant sa Pilipinas. (As the number of illnesses in Metro Manila declines, the number of new infections outside the region rises.) The number of instances is reducing in Metro Manila, but we want to remind the entire country that this does not indicate the threat of Covid-19 Omicron or other variants is diminishing) “Nograles remarked.

The official advised local government units to step up their vaccination campaigns and persuade their constituents to be vaccinated, stressing that vaccine coverage outside of the NCR is still low.

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