Doctors fear Bicol might be like India, urge gov't to place it under ECQ

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'If the current situation is not addressed, it is our fear that what is happening in India may not be far behind,' medical groups in Bicol said in a letter to Interior Secretary Eduardo Año.

Medical groups in Bicol appealed to the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases to place the region under the strictest form of lockdown called the enhanced community quarantine .

While the capital region and its nearby provinces have shown declining trends in cases, the opposite is happening in Bicol."Unfortunately, most cases now are not linked to those with travel history nor from travelers coming from outside Bicol," they said. slow, inaccessible, and inadequate testing and much slower and poor contact tracing efforts being conducted at the local levellack of personal protective equipment of health workers, security, monitoring staff, etc.

 

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