After weeks of its lowest caseloads in the pandemic, the Philippines’ capital region is seeing a frightening rise in coronavirus infections.
Summary
- Under the order, unvaccinated people must stay at home except to buy essential goods or for medical purposes.
- Some officials criticized the council’s stay-at-home order for unvaccinated people, noting that even vaccinated people can contract and transmit the virus.
- “The recent exponential COVID-19 surge in Metro Manila happened even when 102 percent of the target population is already vaccinated.
- From as low as 169 daily cases in mid-December, this had surged to 4,600 by Sunday.
- Extra restrictions placed upon the unvaccinated have also been imposed in some European countries in recent months, where Omicron has fuelled unprecedented spikes in COVID-19 cases.