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Metro Manila, other areas to keep COVID-19 Alert 3 until end of January

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Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Health workers spend time outside the emergency room of San Juan De Dios Hospital in Pasay City on Jan. 12, 2022. The sudden increase of COVID-19 cases this year has caused some hospitals in Metro Manila to declare full capacity. George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/news/01/14/20220112-covid-full-capacity-san-juan-de-dios-gc-8193.jpg"/><figcaption>Health workers spend time outside the emergency room of San Juan De Dios Hospital in Pasay City on Jan. 12, 2022. The sudden increase of COVID-19 cases this year has caused some hospitals in Metro Manila to declare full capacity. George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News</figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA —<strong> (UPDATED)</strong> Metro Manila and several other areas will keep current restrictions against COVID-19 until the end of January, Malacañang said on Friday, even as coronavirus infections continued to climb. </p><p>The capital region will stay under COVID-19 Alert 3 until Jan. 31, said Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles. </p><p>The third alert in a 5-level system bans face-to-face classes, contact sports, fun fairs, and casinos. </p><p>It also limited to fully vaccinated individuals and reduced to 30 percent the indoor operating capacity of dine-in services, religious gatherings, fitness studios, personal care services, and recreational venues. <br/> <br/>Other areas under Alerts 3 and 2 from Jan. 16 to 31 include the following, Nograles said. </p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="This screenshot from Nograles" slideshow="" lists="" the="" areas="" under="" Alert="" Levels="" and="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/news/01/14/ptv-1.jpg"/><figcaption>This screenshot from Nograles&#x27; slideshow lists the areas under Alert Levels 2 and 3.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Government earlier announced the following areas would be under Alert 3 from Jan. 14 to 31. </p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/news/01/14/ptv-2.jpg" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/news/01/14/ptv-2.jpg"/></figure></div><p>No area in the country is currently under Alert 4. This alert level is raised if at least 71 percent of an area&#x27;s healthcare capacity has been used, said Nograles. </p><p>Metro Manila has used 58 percent of ICU beds, 54 percent of isolation beds, and 66 percent of ward beds as of Thursday, based on Nograles&#x27; slide show. </p><p>Authorities are making sure that hospital beds are “reserved to those who need it most,” including the elderly, people with comorbidity, and patients with severe or critical COVID-19, said the Palace official. </p><p>Patients who have mild symptoms or are asymptomatic should be brought to isolation facilities or can quarantine at home and tap telemedicine, Nograles said. <br/> <br/>The Philippines on Thursday reported a record-high 34,021 new COVID-19 cases, raising the country&#x27;s total confirmed infections to 3,092,409, data from the Department of Health showed. </p><p>The positivity rate was at record-high 47.9 percent, nearly tenfold the World Health Organization&#x27;s 5 percent positivity rate benchmark. </p>

Metro Manila and several other areas will keep current restrictions against COVID-19 until the end of January, Malacañang said on Friday.

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Metro Manila, other areas to keep COVID-19 Alert 3 until end of January

Jamaine Punzalan,

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Published January 14, 2022 12:35 PM PHT

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Updated January 14, 2022 03:18 PM PHT

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