Posible ang malalang COVID-19 surge kapag nakapasok sa Pilipinas ang Omicron variant, ayon sa OCTA Research Group.
Nauna nang tinukoy ng World Health Organization na ‘variant of concern’ ang Omicron dahil sa bilis nito na makahawa, pero sinasabing ‘mild’ symptoms lang umano ang nakukuha rito.
Sinabi ni Octa Research fellow Dr. Guido David ang kanyang komento matapos na makitaan ng pagsirit ng COVID-19 cases sa South Africa kung saan nauna itong natukoy.
“South Africa reported 37,875 new Covid-19 cases on December 12, 2021. This is a new record high for South Africa. From November 8 to 14, South Africa had an average of 246 new cases,” saad ni David sa Twitter.
“Since then, cases jumped to an average of 19,400 over a span of four weeks. The average weekly growth rate over that period was more than 200%,” dagdag pa ni David.
Sa ngayon, umaabot ang reproduction rate o bilis ng antas ng hawaan ng COVID-19 sa South Africa mula sa 0.48 sa 4.18.
“This is higher than the reproduction number during the [D]elta surge,” dagdag pa ni David.
“Although vaccine coverage in the Philippines is significantly higher compared to South Africa, the omicron variant, if it enters the country’s borders, will likely trigger a serious surge of new cases in the Philippines,” paliwanag pa ni David.
“The bright side is that, based on the information we have at this time, most of the cases will be mild or asymptomatic,”saad pa ni David.
Nauna nang nagpalabas ng travel ban ang Pilipinas sa mga bansang South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium at Italy hanggang December 15.
(Toni Tambong)
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OCTA: Malalang COVID-19 surge posible kapag pumasok ang Omicron variant sa Pilipinas
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