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News By VIRGIL LOPEZ, GMA News Published April 23, 2021 1:38pm Experts from the OCTA Research Group on Friday warned against further easing of COVID-19 restrictions in the National Capital Region (NCR) even as the spread of the disease showed signs of slowing down. OCTA Research fellow Fr. Nicanor Austriaco said the reproduction number should be less than 1 for several weeks. A reproduction number of 1 or higher indicates sustained transmission of the virus. “We urge the national gov...

endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 23) — There is a need to extend the modified enhanced community quarantine in NCR Plus — which is set to end on April 30 — if the reproduction number or R0 does not stay below 1 "in a sustained manner," OCTA Research fellow Fr. Nicanor Austriaco said Friday. "We urge the national government...not to exit [from] the MECQ until the R0 is at least less than .9 in a sustained manner," Austriaco told a webinar. Austriaco said the reproduction...

Published April 23, 2021, 4:20 PM The OCTA Research Team urged national and local governments on Friday, April 23, to intensify and expand testing, tracing, and isolation of coronavirus disease (COVID) cases to reverse the increase in community transmissions, and eventually shift to less strict restrictions in Metro Manila. OCTA fellow Prof. Ranjit Rye said the National Capital Region (NCR) must double its daily testing capacity at the barangay level. There is also a need to expand accessible a...

Published April 18, 2021, 9:31 PM The OCTA Research Group said the implementation of the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in the National Capital Region and in the nearby provinces of Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal (NCR-plus) worked and saved lives. Commuters board a jeepney after waiting for about half an hour in Philcoa, Quezon City as public transportation are only allowed 50 percent capacity during the enhanced community quarantine in NCR plus bubble. (Mark Balmores/ MANILA BULLETIN ...

(ALI VICOY / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) “We’re very proud to partner with Quezon City government, and yes the vaccination site that was chosen was the College of Human Kinetics which is a beautiful site,” OCTA research and UP Professor Ranjit Rye said in a virtual press conference on Thursday. Rye said that the site is already being prepared for the partnership with the local government.  “It’s already being prepared and we’re excited to contribute to the collective efforts of Q...

(ALI VICOY / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) “We are going to submit this week our own vaccine model. In a nutshell, what we are basically saying is this–let’s focus on the limited supply in NCR (National Capital Region). Let’s use risk-based approach, meaning healthcare workers, elderly, co-morbidities first,” OCTA Research fellow Prof. Ranjit Rye said in an ANC interview. “The added layer is that let’s start focusing on spaces that means the NCR, Calabarzon where the majority of t...

(JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN) OCTA Research fellow Prof. Ranjit Rye said that while the government could have done more to stop the new surge of the disease, now is not the time for finger-pointing as COVID-19 cases are still high. “The surge is a big thing, there’s no going around it. We failed here, we could have done better. We could have saved more lives. This surge will cost us and continue to cost us lives. This could have been prevented, we could have done better. The thing is, r...

By JULIA MARI ORNEDO, GMA News Published April 14, 2021 11:37am Updated April 14, 2021 12:29pm The "terrible" surge in COVID-19 cases that the Philippines is experiencing now could have been avoided if the government had acted sooner, an OCTA Research fellow said Wednesday. "I put a lot of blame on government. Number one, government should have closed down much earlier when we were at 1,000 [or] 2,000 cases," Professor Ranjit Rye said in an interview on ANC, adding that the surge was al...

The COVID-19 fatality rate in the National Capital Region increased to 2.02% as of April 11, according to a report on “24 Oras Weekend” on Sunday.

(ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) To curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), President Duterte has approved placing the National Capital Region (NCR) and the nearby provinces of Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal under ECQ from March 29 to April 4. “We strongly recommend that the national government prolong the ECQ in the NCR-plus bubble for the full two weeks. It is now clear that a one-week ECQ will not be sufficient to reverse the surge and the pressure on our hospital system,�...