Tuguegarao City, Cagayan – The Department of Health said late on Tuesday, June 28 that over 17,000 new COVID-19 daily infections may be possible by the last week of July based on projections from a disease surveillance tool.
Health Usec. Maria Rosario Vergeire told the media that the agency’s forecast on the next surge is based from surveillance tool FASSSTER which yielded an estimated 17,105 daily cases of COVID-19 four weeks from now, including vaccination factors and imported cases.
Vergeire said the projection may be ‘possible’ if Filipinos continue non-compliance with prescribed health protocols regardless of Alert Level status, and if individuals continue to evade mandatory isolation guidelines.
The health undersecretary also tackled the high mobility of people with the current relaxed alert levels in majority of the country including the capital region where most of the new infections are detected.
Citing projections from disease surveillance tool FASSSTER, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire in a media briefing said the daily case tally may hit around 17,105 by end of July with increased mobility and continued decline in the public’s compliance to basic health and isolation protocols.
DOH also bared that if non-compliance increases than that of today, the worst case scenario may yield 22,000 new positive cases daily by the end of next month.
A 53 percent increase in COVID-19 daily tallies has been logged at 662 from June 20-26 compared to the week prior. TNF