My son told me things are getting worse, I was hoping that with them going into the summer that it might help suppress infection, but I think the lockdowns over there could have reduced people's vitamin D levels as they have not been getting out, my son and daughter are almost fully white now which is not good, so lack of getting out could leave more of the population vulnerable.
Saturday recorded 7,999 new coronavirus infections, the second straight day that the country posted a record high in daily cases. In a bulletin, the health ministry said total confirmed cases have risen to 656,056 while confirmed deaths have reached 12,930, after 30 more were recorded on Saturday. https://www.usnews.com/news/world/a...-reports-record-7-999-new-covid-19-infections
The problem is a lot of Pinoys are not social distancing, a guy I know in Tupi for example, his son and another guy died yesterday, shot dead at a cockfight cockfight during covid? (his sons being buried today, Muslim, I wonder how many at the funeral wear masks?).
Yup, cockfighting BUT fear not, for the social-distancing sabonguero there's also online cockfighting so they don't miss out on their feathered fury fun, all vices catered for
It's all over the Philippines I would guess, I think it was Davao or GenSan a few months back a number of patrons at a cockpit were infected by one person who knew he was positive.
The question is have they changed behaviour since the start of the pandemic, I doubt they have much, the pandemic has had differing local effects in countries depending on local conditions, whatever happened during the very strict lockdowns in the Philippines looks like it worked for the variants that were in circulation at the time. In the west the spread has been largely at home between people who are spending a lot of time in close proximity, winter exacerbates that here in conjunction with the vitamin D issue over the winter in the north, in the Phils as long as people are out and about vitamin D should not be too big a problem and the heat and light outside means that virus particles will survive in the air for a much shorter period of time than they will here. But with these new variants we don't know exactly why they are more infectious, it might be that it takes a smaller viral load to get a foothold in an individual or it may be that the virus is more stable in the environment, we don't know. All we do know is that something is changing in the dynamics of the Philippine pandemic.
this link might help,some info a bit vague and maybe a bit old but gives a general steer, you can select a country I will be watching Spain and France closely https://news.google.com/covid19/map?hl=en-GB&mid=/m/05v8c&gl=GB&ceid=GB:en
It is serious, but to a lot of people social distancing is an alien concept in the PI, Pinoys are herd animals.
Every bit of video including some today I have been sent from the PI shows mixed households, the only place I know genuinely locked down is lolas beach, the fence and security guards see to that, they even refused to let a worker back in when she climbed the back fence to go chat with her mates, her belongings were boxed and put outside the gate awaiting her return, can't take chances.
The virus has been in the country for a year for some reason it did not spread in calamitous fashion when many including myself thought it likely would, so something good was going on for the last year be it the lockdowns or change in behaviour or mask wearing and face shields but they were getting something right. This surge is certainly new is it connected to the new variants quite probably.