The growth rate of COVID-19 in Bacolod city reached 250 percent on Tuesday, according to a doctor who works in the said area.
“Ang growth rate which is also a significant data, ng January 7 ay 38 percent lang,” said Dr. Julius Drilon in Teleradyo. “Nung pagdating ng mga January 11, ay umakyat sa 250 percent ang Bacolod City.”
“Ang Negros Occidental which is the province ay umakyat ng almost 158 percent,” he said.
The growth rate of COVID-19 in Bacolod city reached 250 percent on Tuesday, according to a doctor who works in the said area.
“Ang aming average daily attack rate, which means na kung ilan na tao ang naiinfect per 100,000 population, ang Bacolod ay umakyat din sa 2.66. Ang Negros Occidental ay medyo mababa ng mga 1.55 percent.”
“But all these data and numbers Jeff is telling us one thing: it’s telling us that these numbers will continue to rise. We do not know when it’s going to peak, but definitely, it’s going to rise. Again.”
According to the doctor, most of the patients at Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital show moderate symptoms.
Most of them are also not vaccinated, he said.
“We have now a total of confirmed positive of around 32 and karamihan sa kanila dito ay moderate to severe, I think two are in mechanical ventilators. But the sad part is, almost 97 percent are unvaccinated.”
COVID-19 growth rate in Bacolod at 250 pct
He added that some healthcare workers have also been affected by COVID-19.
“The past two weeks of January, umakyat po sa 23 ang nagpositive. Seven ay–puro medical workers po ito, wala po sa support staff—seven ay naka-high risk quarantine, and we suspect na ito ay community transmission.”
Drilon called on the public to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
He said the threat of the omicron variant should be taken seriously.
“Let us not take omicron variant as a mild coronavirus. Sa ngayon hindi natin maintindihan kung ito ay omicron o itong delta. But definitely these two variants now are the one predominating the whole ecosystem of positivity.”
“So I am appealing all our kababayan, the whole country for the matter, to have yourself vaccinated. Because we have proven the fact that, and we have proven science that this vaccine works.”
“If not for the vaccine, probably we’re getting more deaths, probably we’ll be getting more admission, and probably at this point it could have overwhelmed the hospitals all over the Philippines,” he said.
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