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Understanding COVID-19 dynamics and the effects of ...
COVID-19 dynamics in the Philippines are driven by age, contact structure, mobility, and MHS adherence. Continued compliance with low-cost MHS should help the Philippines control the epidemic until vaccines are widely distributed, but disease resurgence may be occurring due to a combination of low population immunity and detection rates and new variants of concern.
The Philippine COVID-19 Outcomes: a Retrospective study Of Neurological
The COVID-19 has been identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in December 2019.1 The COVID-19 pandemic has reached the Philippines with most of its cases found in the National Capital Region (NCR).2 The major clinical features of COVID-19 include fever, cough, shortness of breath, myalgia ...
COVID-19: an ongoing public health crisis in the Philippines
The Philippines is contending with one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in southeast Asia. As of April 18, 2021, there were 926 052 cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection and 15 810 deaths recorded. WHO has warned that the country's health-care system risks being overwhelmed. From March 29, 2021, a new round of lockdown was implemented in Manila and four ...
Understanding COVID-19 dynamics and the effects of interventions in the
Research paper. Understanding COVID-19 dynamics and the effects of interventions in the Philippines: A mathematical modelling study ... weekly updates of the model outputs through the first wave directly to policy-makers through the Department of Health COVID-19 Philippines Local Government Units Monitoring Platform (https://fassster.ehealth.ph ...
Epidemiological profile and transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in the
Overview of the Philippine COVID-19 surveillance system. The Philippines is an archipelago of three island groups and 17 regions subdivided into 81 provinces covering 146 cities and 1488 municipalities [].COVID-19 surveillance, like majority of health service delivery, is decentralised to local government units (LGUs), i.e. provinces, cities and municipalities.
PDF Article Title: The Philippines in the time of COVID-19: Early
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2) has spread globally since its first report in Wuhan, China on December 31, 2019. On January 30, the Philippines reported its first two imported cases of COVID-19 in a couple from Wuhan. One of them died on February 1st, becoming the first COVID-19 death outside China.
Early response to COVID-19 in the Philippines
Abstract. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with weak health systems are especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we describe the challenges and early response of the Philippine Government, focusing on travel restrictions, community interventions, risk communication and testing, from 30 January 2020 when the ...
Economic losses from COVID-19 cases in the Philippines: a ...
The Philippine population of 110 million comprises a relatively young population. On May 22, 2021, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases reported in the country is 1,171,403 with 55,531 active ...
Assessing the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, shift to online ...
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic declared by the WHO has affected many countries rendering everyday lives halted. In the Philippines, the lockdown quarantine protocols have shifted the traditional college classes to online. The abrupt transition to online classes may bring psychological effects to college students due to continuous isolation and lack of interaction with fellow students and ...
Local government responses for COVID-19 management in the Philippines
Background. Responses of subnational government units are crucial in the containment of the spread of pathogens in a country. To mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Philippine national government through its Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases outlined different quarantine measures wherein each level has a corresponding degree of rigidity from keeping only the ...
PDF Impacts of COVID-19 on Communities in the Philippines
The World Bank, in collaboration with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), conducted two rounds of a high frequency social monitoring survey that aimed to assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the poorest and most vulnerable rural communities. This survey aimed to also determine the level of understanding and source of ...
Age, COVID-19, and Mental Health in the Philippines: A Multidimensional
example, studies on the COVID-19 virus reveal that the elderly are most vulnerable to severe COVID-19-related complications compared to younger adults (Liu et al., 2020) and have greater risk for mortality (Channappanavar & Perlman, 2020). This vulnerability may make them more anxious compared to younger generations. On the other hand, the period
The Philippines' COVID-19 Response:
Atienza ML., Arugay AA., Encinas-Franco J (2020) Constitutional Performance Assessment in the Time of a Pandemic: The 1987 Constitution and the Philippines' Covid-19 Response. Stockholm: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Studies.
The COVID-19 pandemic's effects on mental and psychosocial health in
Prior to COVID-19, the Philippines was already facing one of the highest rates of mental disorders in the Western Pacific, ... scales and frameworks to guide their research studies during the COVID-19 pandemic. ... Bayani, DBS and Tan, SG (2021) Health systems impact of COVID-19 in the Philippines. Working Paper 569, March 2021, Center for ...
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and confidence in the Philippines and ...
With the emergence of the highly transmissible Omicron variant, large-scale vaccination coverage is crucial to the national and global pandemic response, especially in populous Southeast Asian countries such as the Philippines and Malaysia where new information is often received digitally. The main aims of this research were to determine levels of hesitancy and confidence in COVID-19 vaccines ...
Psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
Background: The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic poses a threat to societies' mental health. This study examined the prevalence of psychiatric symptoms and identified the factors contributing to psychological impact in the Philippines. Methods: A total of 1879 completed online surveys were gathered from March 28-April 12, 2020.
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In contrast, Chinese respondents requested more health information about COVID-19. For the Philippines, student status, low confidence in doctors, dissatisfaction with health information, long daily duration spent on health information, worries about family members contracting COVID-19, ostracization, and unnecessary worries about COVID-19 were ...
PDF Health Systems Impact of COVID-19 in the Philippines
Working Paper 569 March 2021. Health Systems Impact of COVID-19 in the Philippines. Abstract. Lockdowns and policy actions to curtail the transmission of COVID-19 have widespread health system ...
Taking matters into our own hands: reflections on the COVID‐19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified and revealed prevailing socioeconomic inequalities and the government's incompetency. The strict implementation of the lockdown has left most people without their safety nets. So far, Filipinos have been subsisting on daily earnings, but those who are homeless are left with no resources.
Journalism, public health, and COVID-19: some preliminary insights from
Similar to other countries, the public health system in the Philippines was unprepared for and overburdened by COVID-19. The first case was reported on January 30 when a Chinese woman reached the country from Wuhan, China, and then a few days later her male companion died of the virus - making it the first recorded death outside of China (Department of Health (DOH), 2020b; Ramzy and May ...
Anxious, Apart, and Attentive: A Qualitative Case Study of Overseas
This research is a qualitative instrumental case study that examines the impact of the pandemic on four OFW families. ... that heightens the anxiety of the OFW members over their left-behind loved ones is the concern over the high number of COVID-19 cases in the Philippines. The OFWs perceive that the Philippine government's response to the ...
Psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
3.5. Knowledge and concerns about COVID-19 and association with psychological impact. The proportions of respondents who perceive that the routes of transmission of the virus for COVID-19 were via droplets, via contaminated objects and airborne were 98.6%, 96.7% and 35.3%, respectively (Table 4). About 76.8% were satisfied to very satisfied ...
Three-year outcomes of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19
All participants had a full 3 years of follow-up, totaling 344,592, 60,891 and 15,620,505 person-years of follow-up in the non-hospitalized COVID-19, hospitalized COVID-19 and control groups ...
Past SARS-CoV-2 infection protection against re-infection: a systematic
We read with interest the meta-analysis authored by the COVID-19 Forecasting Team. 1 The authors report a high degree of protection (>80%) against re-infection and COVID-19 disease for ancestral, alpha (B.1.1.7), beta (B.1.351), and delta (B.1.617.2) variants, but a higher risk of re-infection and symptomatic disease from the omicron BA.1 ...
Crime Patterns and Trends in the Province of Bataan During the Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted various aspects of our society, and criminal activity is no exception. This study investigates how crime dynamics shifted in Bataan Province, Philippines, during the pandemic. Utilizing a descriptive quantitative approach, the researchers analyzed data from the Bataan Provincial Police Office for a three-year period. While the total number of ...
Experts warn PH may see 6,000 new cases daily by March 31
Octa Research warned that, if the surge is not managed, the Philippines may see 6,000 new coronavirus cases daily by March 31. Based on a study released by Octa Research on Sunday, Metro Manila ...
Is the 'FLiRT' already in the Philippines?
The new Covid-19 variants are "likely here" in the Philippines, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Tuesday, May 28. The Department of Health (DOH) said the flagged new Covid-19 subvariants are possibly here in the Philippines but noted that cases continue to be clinically mild and manageable. (Manila Bulletin / file photo)
Before Omicron-fueled spike, 80% of Filipinos hoped COVID-19 ...
A record-high number of respondents in all areas saying "the worst is behind us" with the COVID-19 crisis with 83% answering this way in Mindanao, 82% in Metro Manila, 81% in Balance Luzon ...
Octa Research: COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila climbing faster ...
By March 8, the COVID-19 death toll in the Philippines was at 12,528, as there were 7 new deaths recorded. Recoveries grew by 171 to 546,078. Of the total cases, 41,822 are active.
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COVID-19 dynamics in the Philippines are driven by age, contact structure, mobility, and MHS adherence. Continued compliance with low-cost MHS should help the Philippines control the epidemic until vaccines are widely distributed, but disease resurgence may be occurring due to a combination of low population immunity and detection rates and new variants of concern.
The COVID-19 has been identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in December 2019.1 The COVID-19 pandemic has reached the Philippines with most of its cases found in the National Capital Region (NCR).2 The major clinical features of COVID-19 include fever, cough, shortness of breath, myalgia ...
The Philippines is contending with one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in southeast Asia. As of April 18, 2021, there were 926 052 cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection and 15 810 deaths recorded. WHO has warned that the country's health-care system risks being overwhelmed. From March 29, 2021, a new round of lockdown was implemented in Manila and four ...
Research paper. Understanding COVID-19 dynamics and the effects of interventions in the Philippines: A mathematical modelling study ... weekly updates of the model outputs through the first wave directly to policy-makers through the Department of Health COVID-19 Philippines Local Government Units Monitoring Platform (https://fassster.ehealth.ph ...
Overview of the Philippine COVID-19 surveillance system. The Philippines is an archipelago of three island groups and 17 regions subdivided into 81 provinces covering 146 cities and 1488 municipalities [].COVID-19 surveillance, like majority of health service delivery, is decentralised to local government units (LGUs), i.e. provinces, cities and municipalities.
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2) has spread globally since its first report in Wuhan, China on December 31, 2019. On January 30, the Philippines reported its first two imported cases of COVID-19 in a couple from Wuhan. One of them died on February 1st, becoming the first COVID-19 death outside China.
Abstract. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with weak health systems are especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we describe the challenges and early response of the Philippine Government, focusing on travel restrictions, community interventions, risk communication and testing, from 30 January 2020 when the ...
The Philippine population of 110 million comprises a relatively young population. On May 22, 2021, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases reported in the country is 1,171,403 with 55,531 active ...
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic declared by the WHO has affected many countries rendering everyday lives halted. In the Philippines, the lockdown quarantine protocols have shifted the traditional college classes to online. The abrupt transition to online classes may bring psychological effects to college students due to continuous isolation and lack of interaction with fellow students and ...
Background. Responses of subnational government units are crucial in the containment of the spread of pathogens in a country. To mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Philippine national government through its Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases outlined different quarantine measures wherein each level has a corresponding degree of rigidity from keeping only the ...
The World Bank, in collaboration with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), conducted two rounds of a high frequency social monitoring survey that aimed to assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the poorest and most vulnerable rural communities. This survey aimed to also determine the level of understanding and source of ...
example, studies on the COVID-19 virus reveal that the elderly are most vulnerable to severe COVID-19-related complications compared to younger adults (Liu et al., 2020) and have greater risk for mortality (Channappanavar & Perlman, 2020). This vulnerability may make them more anxious compared to younger generations. On the other hand, the period
Atienza ML., Arugay AA., Encinas-Franco J (2020) Constitutional Performance Assessment in the Time of a Pandemic: The 1987 Constitution and the Philippines' Covid-19 Response. Stockholm: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Studies.
Prior to COVID-19, the Philippines was already facing one of the highest rates of mental disorders in the Western Pacific, ... scales and frameworks to guide their research studies during the COVID-19 pandemic. ... Bayani, DBS and Tan, SG (2021) Health systems impact of COVID-19 in the Philippines. Working Paper 569, March 2021, Center for ...
With the emergence of the highly transmissible Omicron variant, large-scale vaccination coverage is crucial to the national and global pandemic response, especially in populous Southeast Asian countries such as the Philippines and Malaysia where new information is often received digitally. The main aims of this research were to determine levels of hesitancy and confidence in COVID-19 vaccines ...
Background: The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic poses a threat to societies' mental health. This study examined the prevalence of psychiatric symptoms and identified the factors contributing to psychological impact in the Philippines. Methods: A total of 1879 completed online surveys were gathered from March 28-April 12, 2020.
In contrast, Chinese respondents requested more health information about COVID-19. For the Philippines, student status, low confidence in doctors, dissatisfaction with health information, long daily duration spent on health information, worries about family members contracting COVID-19, ostracization, and unnecessary worries about COVID-19 were ...
Working Paper 569 March 2021. Health Systems Impact of COVID-19 in the Philippines. Abstract. Lockdowns and policy actions to curtail the transmission of COVID-19 have widespread health system ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified and revealed prevailing socioeconomic inequalities and the government's incompetency. The strict implementation of the lockdown has left most people without their safety nets. So far, Filipinos have been subsisting on daily earnings, but those who are homeless are left with no resources.
Similar to other countries, the public health system in the Philippines was unprepared for and overburdened by COVID-19. The first case was reported on January 30 when a Chinese woman reached the country from Wuhan, China, and then a few days later her male companion died of the virus - making it the first recorded death outside of China (Department of Health (DOH), 2020b; Ramzy and May ...
This research is a qualitative instrumental case study that examines the impact of the pandemic on four OFW families. ... that heightens the anxiety of the OFW members over their left-behind loved ones is the concern over the high number of COVID-19 cases in the Philippines. The OFWs perceive that the Philippine government's response to the ...
3.5. Knowledge and concerns about COVID-19 and association with psychological impact. The proportions of respondents who perceive that the routes of transmission of the virus for COVID-19 were via droplets, via contaminated objects and airborne were 98.6%, 96.7% and 35.3%, respectively (Table 4). About 76.8% were satisfied to very satisfied ...
All participants had a full 3 years of follow-up, totaling 344,592, 60,891 and 15,620,505 person-years of follow-up in the non-hospitalized COVID-19, hospitalized COVID-19 and control groups ...
We read with interest the meta-analysis authored by the COVID-19 Forecasting Team. 1 The authors report a high degree of protection (>80%) against re-infection and COVID-19 disease for ancestral, alpha (B.1.1.7), beta (B.1.351), and delta (B.1.617.2) variants, but a higher risk of re-infection and symptomatic disease from the omicron BA.1 ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted various aspects of our society, and criminal activity is no exception. This study investigates how crime dynamics shifted in Bataan Province, Philippines, during the pandemic. Utilizing a descriptive quantitative approach, the researchers analyzed data from the Bataan Provincial Police Office for a three-year period. While the total number of ...
Octa Research warned that, if the surge is not managed, the Philippines may see 6,000 new coronavirus cases daily by March 31. Based on a study released by Octa Research on Sunday, Metro Manila ...
The new Covid-19 variants are "likely here" in the Philippines, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Tuesday, May 28. The Department of Health (DOH) said the flagged new Covid-19 subvariants are possibly here in the Philippines but noted that cases continue to be clinically mild and manageable. (Manila Bulletin / file photo)
A record-high number of respondents in all areas saying "the worst is behind us" with the COVID-19 crisis with 83% answering this way in Mindanao, 82% in Metro Manila, 81% in Balance Luzon ...
By March 8, the COVID-19 death toll in the Philippines was at 12,528, as there were 7 new deaths recorded. Recoveries grew by 171 to 546,078. Of the total cases, 41,822 are active.