COVID-19 cases shoot up by 82%, unvaccinated urged to get jabbed immediately

MANILA, Philippines – After months of recording low infections, COVID-19 cases climbed again by 82% from June 13 to 19, data from the Department of Health showed.

The DOH said that as of Sunday, June 19, there were 554 critical and severe patients admitted to the hospitals due to COVID-19. Despite this, hospital utilization in the country remains at low risk.In a text message to Rappler, Dr. John Wong of Epimetrics said the Philippines has had at least a week of continuous increase in seven-day moving average of COVID-19 cases.

Wong said that although there was a “sharp rise” in COVID-19 infections, hospitalization and deaths remained low. This, according to him, was due to “infection- and vaccine-induced immunity and to the relative mildness of Omicron.” “Even with Omicron, people are still getting hospitalized and dying and most of these are the unvaccinated. Actually, the more important message should be for the unvaccinated to get vaccinated. Boosting the unboosted will have less of an impact than vaccinating the unvaccinated,” Wong said.

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