Metro Manila will not revert to Alert Level 2 — DTI chief
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez is confident that the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases will not revert Metro Manila to Alert Level 2.
This comes as rumors of a stricter Alert Level was released due to the increasing cased of COVID-19 in the capital region.
In a statement, Lopez said, “We have already learned by now that mild Covid cases and low ICU utilization rate should not lead to escalating the alert level.”
He added that the country needs to “sustain economic recovery.”
DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire disclosed that the total bed utilization and intensive care unit occupancy rate is still at low risk, with 19% and 16%, respectively.
Due to this classification, Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion proposed lifting the state of public health emergency across all areas in the Philippines.
