Infectious Disease expert Dr Rontgene Solante during Laging Hnda press briefing said that the Philippines is ready by the time the state of a public health emergency is removed. He said it was proven for several months that despite the waves of infections, hospitals and communities are not threatened by many deaths.
Solante said that the healthcare facilities now know how to manage COVID-19. He added that the continued preparation for the lifting of the state of public health emergency should be two-fold: increasing the boostered population an strengthening COVID-19 surveillance to detect the presence of variants.