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Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire (File photo) MANILA - The Covid-19 pandemic is not yet over, and the country has not yet reached the endemic state of the virus, a health official said Monday. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire made this comment a day after the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) placed Metro Manila and 38 other areas under the lowest Alert Level 1 status from March 1 to 15. "Ang ibig sabihin po ng endemic state ay ang virus ay nandiyan na kasama na po naten dito sa ating buhay, ngunit, acceptable na po ang mga numero ng ating mga kaso, acceptable na rin po sa ating (Endemic state means the virus remains with us in our lives, but the case numbers are acceptable in our) society," Vergeire said in a Palace press briefing. She said the endemic state could be reached when high number of vaccination in the country can balance off the transmission of Covid-19. She added that death from Covid-19