{"id":264452,"date":"2020-08-07T07:14:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T11:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=264452"},"modified":"2020-08-07T07:14:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T11:14:17","slug":"palace-downplays-reports-ph-now-covid-19-hot-spot-in-se-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/07\/palace-downplays-reports-ph-now-covid-19-hot-spot-in-se-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace downplays reports PH now Covid-19 hot spot in SE Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the Philippines has reported more Covid-19 cases than Indonesia because of Manila\u2019s improved testing capacity. (PCOO file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Malaca\u00f1ang on Friday dismissed as \u201cfalse\u201d and \u201cinconclusive\u201d the reports that the Philippines now emerges as Southeast Asia\u2019s coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) hot spot, after allegedly overtaking Indonesia as the worst-hit nation in the region.<\/p>\n

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the Philippines has reported more Covid-19 cases than Indonesia because of Manila\u2019s improved testing capacity.<\/p>\n

\u201cDahil mas maigting ang ating pagte<\/em>-test,\u00a0hindi po totoo na mas maraming kaso tayo kaysa sa<\/em>\u00a0Indonesia (Because we have intensified our testing capacity, it\u2019s not true that we have more cases than Indonesia),\u201d Roque said in a virtual press conference.<\/p>\n

Roque noted that the Philippines can conduct an average of 28,938 Covid-19 tests per day, higher than Indonesia\u2019s 14,921 Covid-19 tests per day.<\/p>\n

Thus, the Philippines\u2019 testing capacity is \u201cthree times\u201d more advanced than Indonesia\u2019s ability to conduct tests for Covid-19 daily, Roque said.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the Philippines reported 3,561 new Covid-19 infections.<\/p>\n

This raises the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 119,460, surpassing Indonesia’s 118,753 cases.<\/p>\n

Belying reports that the Philippines now has the most number of Covid-19 cases in Southeast Asia, Roque stressed that Bali only has \u201cone-third of the actual testing\u201d that Manila has conducted.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo\u00a0\u2018yun po ang aking<\/em>\u00a0basis for saying\u00a0na hindi naman talaga totoo at<\/em>\u00a0conclusive\u00a0na mas marami na tayong kaso dito sa Pilipinas<\/em>\u00a0compared to Indonesia (So that\u2019s my basis for saying that it is false and inconclusive to say that the Philippines has more cases compared to Indonesia),\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n

In an effort to curb the spread of Covid-19, President Rodrigo Duterte has once again imposed tougher quarantine restrictions in Metro Manila and its nearby provinces.<\/p>\n

Modified enhanced quarantine, the second most stringent quarantine classification, has been imposed in Metro Manila and the provinces of Laguna, Rizal, Cavite and Bataan from Aug. 4 to 18.<\/p>\n

Roque ensured that the government would continue to push for measures that would help defeat Covid-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cMas kilala na po natin ang anyo ng<\/em>\u00a0Covid-19.\u00a0Kumpara noong Marso, alam na natin kung paano ito kumakalat, alam na rin natin kung paano ito maiiwasan<\/em>\u00a0(We are now more familiar with Covid-19. Compared to what we have done in March, we now know how it spreads and how to stop its further transmission),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Malaca\u00f1ang on Friday dismissed as \u201cfalse\u201d and \u201cinconclusive\u201d the reports that the Philippines now emerges as Southeast Asia\u2019s coronavirus …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":259452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ruth-abbey-gita-carlos","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264456,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264452\/revisions\/264456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}