Gaea Katreena Cabico (Philstar.com) – January 29, 2021 – 4:10pm
MANILA, Philippines — The Division of Well being reported that 1,849 extra folks bought contaminated with COVID-19, pushing the nation’s caseload to 521,413 Friday.
The newest figures confirmed that of the full circumstances, 35,048 or 6.7% are lively.
A minimum of 475,765 people have recovered from COVID-19 within the Philippines after the DOH recorded 177 further recoveries.
In the meantime, the loss of life toll reached 10,600 with 48 extra sufferers succumbing to the respiratory sickness.
What’s new at this time?
- The DOH didn’t embrace in its case bulletin the checklist of areas with essentially the most variety of new COVID-19 circumstances.
- Metro Manila, Batangas, Tacloban Metropolis, Davao Metropolis, Davao del Norte, Lanao del Sur and Iligan Metropolis will stay beneath general community quarantine for an additional month. In the meantime, the provinces of Abra, Apayao, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga and Mountain Province, and Baguio Metropolis will revert to GCQ from February 1 to twenty-eight.
- The restriction on foreigners coming from international locations with circumstances of the extra contagious coronavirus variant will “lapse” in January 31, Malacañang stated
- Baguio Metropolis Mayor Benjamin Magalong volunteered to stop because the nation’s contact tracing czar however his resignation was not accepted by President Rodrigo Duterte’s process power. Magalong drew flak for attending a party the place friends flouted quarantine guidelines.
- The DOH stated the case of a Filipina employee in Hong Kong who was discovered to have the extra transmissible COVID-19 variant is now thought-about “closed.” Nevertheless, it stays unclear how and the place the girl caught the virus.
