![]() It will slow viral transmission," he added.Īustriaco also proposed shortening the Sinovac two-dose interval from 30 days to 14 days and AstraZeneca two-dose interval from 12 weeks to eight weeks to be able to reach population protection faster. A circuit breaker lockdown will allow us to achieve this level of population protection. It is expected to enter Delta resilience in the next few weeks. "The NCR is very close to this 30 percent Delta resilience. The circuit breaker lockdown will also allow the government to accelerate vaccinations in Metro Manila and achieve 30 percent Delta resilience in the population. "It is very difficult for LGUs to do intensive contact tracing where the reproduction number is six to eight per person if people are moving constantly within the cities," Austriaco said. Molecular biologist-priest Nicanor Austriaco, also an OCTA fellow, further explained that the two-week circuit breaker lockdown aims to "shut down" the mobility of people to stop the virus from spreading, as well as to conduct "intensive" contact tracing to identify and isolate every COVID-19 positive person. We also want them to appreciate the intent of OCTA to provide some sort of preemptive, proactive approach to prevent the catastrophic Delta surge from happening," Rye said in a virtual press briefing on Wednesday, July 28. We want them to do that but we want them to realize that there is a problem as far as COVID in the NCR (National Capital Region) is concerned. "The government will deal with the ECQ (enhanced community quarantine), MECQ (modified enhanced community quarantine) decision. He added that the term is being used by the group to prevent from preempting the government's position on the issue. OCTA Research fellow and University of the Philippines (UP) professor Ranjit Rye explained that the "circuit-breaker" lockdown is a "go early, go hard" strategy. ![]() Independent research group OCTA has been calling for a two-week "circuit-breaker" lockdown in Metro Manila starting August 1 to stop the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
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