Day by day chart Global:

https://trackcovid.live/global?display=day-day

Day by day chart Philippines:

https://trackcovid.live/Philippines?display=day-day

The Philippines has seen the highest increase not only in numbers of confirmed cases, but the highest percentage increase of all countries on a day to day basis.

With an increase of 538 (+34.80%) new cases it outpaced Argentina 234 (+28.54%), Russia 501 (+27.29%) and European hot spot Turkey 2,704 (+24.97%).

While the majority of cases are reported in the Metro Manila area on the island of Luzon, smaller clusters opened up on other islands over the last week.

According to this article from February, the government is ‘ill-prepared’ to handle the virus outbreak after cutting the health care budget by $197 million (PHP 10 billion).

Good News is coming from provinces:

According to one of our readers that resides in the Philippines, local governments are taking the threat very serious and enforced lockdowns already before this was suggested by the federal government and without any known cases in their areas.

Some of the lockdown rules:

liquor ban (no alcohol consume)

curfew from 8pm until 5am

one quarantine pass per household

only one person per pass at a time

outside with no quarantine pass may result in arrest

all municipalities and cities have street barriers manned by police, army and volunteers

nobody can enter or leave the municipality/city (except for officials)

The overall population is very supportive of these new restrictions and only very few violate them.

There is hope we can hold out long enough until a vaccine is made available. If a country-wide outbreak happens, we will most likely not be able to handle it.