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Lab Notes | Would granular lockdowns in Metro Manila work in the face of a Delta surge?

Agham National September 17, 2021 0 Comment contact tracing, COVID-19 response, granular lockdown, testing

Assuming that the areas under granular lockdown are identified as potential sources of infection, what interventions are being done to ensure the risk of transmission is mitigated or even bring down infections? How are tracing and testing protocols being implemented? In the case of indoor establishments and workplaces, what engineering and administrative controls are in place? In the context of airborne transmission of COVID-19, disinfections are simply not enough.

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‘Lockdowns alone can’t end pandemic’ – health advocates

Bulatlat Contributors August 1, 2021 Coalition of People’s Right to Health, contact tracing, COVID-19, ecq, mass testing, out of pocket expenses, pandemic response, PhilHealth

With the government’s inability to control the rise of COVID-19 cases in the country, community health advocates are up in arms over the government’s response that, for the last 500 or so days, mainly resorted to stricter lockdowns.

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#UndoingDuterte | Poor contact tracing amid deadly Delta variant

Janess Ann J. Ellao July 25, 2021 contact tracing, COVID19, delta variant, sona 2021, undoing duterte

To identify close contacts up to third or fourth degree, community health advocates said that contact tracing has to rely on an already robust public health system which the Philippines does not have in the first place.

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‘Right to health and information left up in the air as high court denies call for mass testing’

Janess Ann J. Ellao September 17, 2020 contact tracing, COVID19, mass testing

“We cannot accept the Court’s reasoning that it is barred from compelling the executive to protect the people’s right to health ‘in a certain way or to a certain degree’ and ‘no matter how dire the emergency’ when it is obvious that the current response is a huge failure and places our people’s health and safety in peril.”

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How is contact tracing done?

Bulatlat Contributors September 2, 2020 contact tracing, COVID19

So, how does this contact tracing really happen? In my case, wala (none). It didn’t happen. I hope this is an isolated case but if this is the norm in most cases, gets ko yung sinasabi ng matanda na we just wait for a vaccine. For the meantime, use gasoline to clean your face masks but do not add fuel to the fire.

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Duterte’s COVID-19 response, no sense of urgency

Janess Ann J. Ellao July 25, 2020 contact tracing, COVID-19 response, health workers, mass testing

With the cases increasing, concerned government agencies are swamped with backlogs, particularly on validating COVID-19 cases and an overwhelmed public health system.

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Root Access | Pursuing digital justice in the Philippines

Ecofascism?

Head scratchers: ’22 budget, apology for drug lord slay

#UndoingDuterte | Poor contact tracing amid deadly Delta variant

Government still fails in COVID-19 mass testing

Majority of COVID-19 loans not used for pandemic response

Tags: contact tracing

Lab Notes | Would granular lockdowns in Metro Manila work in the face of a Delta surge?

‘Lockdowns alone can’t end pandemic’ – health advocates

#UndoingDuterte | Poor contact tracing amid deadly Delta variant

‘Right to health and information left up in the air as high court denies call for mass testing’

How is contact tracing done?

Duterte’s COVID-19 response, no sense of urgency