PR
Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases spokesperson Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles over the weekend announced the parameters that would be used by the IATF sub-technical working group (TWG) on Data Analytics to determine whether the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) would be extended or lifted in the coming days.
Nograles said the IATF has adopted the parameters proposed by the IATF sub-technical working group (TWG) on Data Analytics for deciding on the total or partial lifting, or the possible extension of the ECQ in Luzon.
The Palace official said the parameters include “trends in the COVID-19 epidemiological curve, which include, among others, the doubling time, acceleration, or deceleration of new cases.”
Nograles explained that another parameter is the capacity of the health care system, “which includes, among others, the number and availability of quarantine, isolation, and treatment facilities; the capability to mount contact tracing; availability of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) to frontliners, and the testing capacity of the country.”
The other parameters, Nograles said, are social factors, economic factors, and security factors.
According to Nograles, “the Department of Health (DOH) is hereby directed to convene all concerned agencies and to finalize the aggregation and analysis of all relevant data applicable to the contained area, subject to the deliberation of the IATF and final determination by the President.”
Nograles added that the same sub-TWG is also directed to apply the same parameters to propose recommendations with regard to the possible implementation of a general or enhanced community quarantine in the Visayas and Mindanao.
