The new system imposes granular lockdowns — by household, street, barangay, or condominium floor or building — instead of shutting down whole towns, cities, provinces or regions. It is being piloted in Metro Manila from September 16 to 30.
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Published April 6, 2021, 8:10 PM
The Department of Tourism (DOT) has recognized the efforts of 24 local hotels that turned their rooms into quarantine facilities as a way to help in the country’s fight against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
“The DOT is grateful for the hotel industry’s continued support in repurposing their accommodations into quarantine facilities for local residents undergoing mandatory quarantine, returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), and overseas Filipinos,” the agency said in a statement on Tuesday, April 6.
According to the agency, 24 hotels in Metro Manila, the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), Calabarzon, and Davao Region have transformed a total of 2,442 of their guest rooms into isolation facilities.
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March 16, 2021 THE Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, reported over 4,000 new cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) for the fifth straight day.
In its case bulletin at 4 p.m. Tuesday, DOH listed 4,437 new infections, which raised the cumulative case count to 631,320.
Active cases increased further to 57,736, or 9.1 percent of the total.
There were 11 additional mortalities, raising the death toll to 12,848. The case fatality rate declined further to 2.04 percent.
There were 166 new recoveries, bringing the total recoveries to 560,736.
The daily positivity rate remained high at 11.2 percent as 2,786 out of 24,932 tested as of noon of March 15 yielded positive results.
Healthcare utilization rates further increased, especially in the National Capital Region (NCR), where the biggest increase in cases has been documented.