LOOK: Here are the differences between ECQ and GCQ

LOOK: Here are the differences between ECQ (enhanced community quarantine) and GCQ (general community quarantine). 

After MAY 15, 2020, Metro Manila will be under GCQ too. So, it is important that we know the rules about GCQ now.

The decision of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) is based on the risk of outbreak of COVID-19 in various provinces.

Those GCQ areas shall observe the following:

- Select workers will be allowed to go out and work in phases.
- Those aged below 21 and above 60, and high health risk individuals shall continue to stay at home. Hey, this is for your own good believe me.
- Partial opening of non-leisure shops and malls 
- Mandatory temperature check
- Mandatory wearing of masks,
- Mandatory use of alcohol
- Resumption of classes in higher education institutions
- Resumption of priority and essential construction projects
- Resumption of public transportation at a reduced capacity
- Curfew for non-workers
- Continued unhampered movement of goods.

Click here for the list of industries ALLOWED to operate in GCQ areas: https://www.facebook.com/310218036267844/posts/581315705824741/

Click here for the list of industries RESTRICTED to operate in GCQ areas: https://www.facebook.com/310218036267844/posts/581316919157953/

Click here for the list of areas covered by the extended ECQ until May 15, 2020: https://www.facebook.com/pcoogov/posts/3485136208182682

Click here for the list of areas under GCQ starting May 1, 2020: https://www.facebook.com/pcoogov/posts/3485534531476183

#LagingHandaPH
#COVID19PH
#WeHealAsOne

“Telemedicine” poised as best solution during the COVID-19 pandemic

“Telemedicine” poised as best solution during the COVID-19 pandemic

The deadly COVID-19 virus has been in existence for just a few months but the whole world is already reeling various measures to control it from spreading. These include the closure of borders and strict stay-at-home quarantine for many citizens in countries hit by the deadly virus.

Hospitals have become the epicenter of lockdown areas and medical demand continues to grow exponentially as the pandemic spreads further.

Other than patients with chronic diseases who require medical resources regularly, those with symptoms of coughing and fever but not yet declared COVID-19 positive are worried that they'll be infected if they go to a hospital. Even if hospitals and clinics in Taiwan are close to people’s homes and are easily accessible, many still feel they are very far away.

Thus, “Telemedicine” is poised as the best solution amid this pandemic, according to Walter Yeh, President and CEO of Taiwan External Trade Development Council or TAITRA. “The technology being used in telemedicine/telehealth helps reduce the risk and cost of infection to patients and medical staff alike, and has become the best solution to treating patients with infectious diseases.”

According to a survey by Global Market Insights, the global market value of telemedicine will increase from US$38.3 billion in 2019 to US$130.5 billion in 2025 for a composite average growth rate of 19.2 percent. The pandemic may be causing windows of opportunity all over the world to close, but telemedicine offers a rare window of hope for the whole world. “Taiwan is able to integrate strategic advantages in information, communication, and medical strength and is therefore exclusively equipped with the potential to help develop the global telemedicine industry. Our goal is to combine Artificial Intelligence (AI) with big data in order to improve upon current medical information systems and image analysis.”

In a virtual press conference held recently, Yeh showcased to the media three telehealth solutions: Medimaging Integrated Solution, BIONIME, and Leadtek Research, Inc., who all developed products with the aim of advancing science. The solutions, said Yeh, share three common objectives, such as to reduce COVID-19 risks and medical costs for both patients and medical facilities, expedite a patient’s recovery from illness, and to promote proactive patient self-management.

The telehealth industry includes telehealth management, telehealth nursing and telemedicine. In terms of telehealth management, Leadtek, a Taiwan Excellence enterprise, has created its “amor physical and mental health management platform“ based on a wearable bracelet that can monitor personal data like sleeping habits, fatigue levels, blood circulation, and physical stress index. The comprehensive information it collects enhances knowledge of AI risk prediction, individual health patterns, and allows for personalized suggestions to boost self-health management.

On the other hand, “The Rightest Precision Health Combined Care Circle,” created by Bionime Corporation, collects and analyzes electronic data through digital health service stations and converts it into easily readable information charts. This powerful telecare nursing service provides professional medical hospitals and clinics with ideal solutions for institutional care management as well as follow-up care outside the institutions.
As for telemedicine, the “Horus Scope Digital Handheld Tonometer” developed by Medimaging is available to both physicians and optometrists and aims to facilitate the production of electronic medical records through digital photography or video recording. The image can be transmitted to the physician remotely for diagnosis to reduce the need for one-to-one contact.

Taiwan has been at the forefront of global COVID-19 prevention efforts. Through the full support of the government, transparent information exchange, industrial capability, and the combined effort of medical professionals, Taiwan has been able to showcase its strength in the medical industry. The Taiwan External Trade Development Council will continue to promote all aspects of the medical industry in Taiwan and will hold a "Taiwan International Medical and Healthcare Exhibition" at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 2 October 15-17. Taiwan Excellence will also lead award-winning businesses to participate in the American Association for Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Laboratory Equipment Exhibition in December, ASEAN Senior Care & Wellness Expo in Malaysia in August, and MEDICA in Germany in November, to assist domestic manufacturers in expanding their business opportunities across the globe.

SENATOR KOKO PIMENTEL IS COVID-19 POSITIVE

Senator Koko Pimentel, a bar topnotcher, is considered a PUM (Person under Monitoring) since the day he and fellow senators were exposed to a resource person who tested CoViD-19 positive during a Senate hearing last March 5, 2020.

On March 9, 2020, the good senator had a meeting with his Senate staff.

On March 10 & 11, he attended a birthday party. 

On March 11, the Senate adjourned session for Holy Week.

From March 11 onwards, the Senators who attended that March 5 hearing were notified to observe a 14-day self-quarantine period because of their exposure to a resource person at the Senate last March 5.

Last March 14, he experienced body pains like flu,  minor cough, slight sore throat and on-and-off diarrhea.

On March 16, his colleague Senator Miguel Zubiri were tested CoViD-19 positive.

Last March 18, he experienced a slight fever which shifted his status to PUM (Person Under Monitoring). 

On March 20, he took a CoViD-19 test.

Last night, March 24 at around seven pm the Honorable Senator Koko Pimentel breached the protocol of his stringent home quarantine and went to the #MakatiMed delivery room together with his wife Katrina who is about to give birth to a baby girl. By doing so, the Senator exposed the doctors, nurses, anaesthetiologist and other patients as well to #Covid19 He was also seen on CCTV walking around the hospital without a facemask.

On the same day, March 24 at around 9 pm, he got a call from RITM (Research Institute for Tropical Medicine) that he was CoViD-19 positive. He immediately left #MMC.

Hashtag #LawmakerLawbreaker 😢 trended because of this incident.

Ignorance of the law excuses no one! Please practice what you preach 🙏🙏🙏 Dura lex sed lex.

Idol ko pa Naman ang tatay mo 😢 😭

Update: He admitted his fault and apologized. Get well Senator Koko Pimentel. Praying for your fast recovery.🙏

Congratulations to your upcoming third baby. Please make it up to your people. Please remember, the Filipino people idolizes you that's why you won a Senate seat. 

God bless the Philippines. May this CoViD-19 virus disappear in the entire world.

CoViD-19 Mass Testing Equipment Badly Needed

#MassTesting please🙏

Downplaying the possibility of an outbreak had caused the lives of the citizens of different countries all over the world.

I know that you know that the numbers of CoViD-19 positive Filipinos are significantly lower than the actual unknown numbers of infected people in the Philippines.

Some badly hit countries like South Korea did mass testing and offer it drive-thru style and they were able to flatten the curve so far.

A small town called Vo in Italy did one hundred percent testing of its residents and they were able to separate 90 CoViD-19 positive residents and put them in quarantine.  So far since March 13 Wala pa Po silang new cases. See this Facebook post

COVID testing is critical to protect the frontliners and our love ones but it’s not the only way to contain the virus. But it is very very important.

I am a nobody. I don't have a clout. I don't have power. But I am knocking at the heart of human beings. Nanawagan Po ako at kumakatok Sa mga puso ng bawat Isa Sa inyo. Sa mga may pera Sana magdonate Po kayo ng laboratory at CoViD-19 testing equipment. Hindi ako lider. Our leaders had failed to act swiftly. To our leaders please act now! There's still time pa po please SAVE LIVES! 

I know for a fact that with our very limited resources dito Sa Pilipinas napakabigat ng wish ko na Ito.

If positive ka or ako ayaw mo rin makahawa di ba? Sa puso ko, sa isip ko gusto Kong maprotektahan Ang Mahal ko Sa buhay. Sana Yun din ang nais mo. 

🙏 Please Po, I am appealing to those with vast resources maybe this is your chance to do good to others. Please buy an equipment, set up a laboratory. Do mass testing. Impossible? No, if we unite together.

#MassTestingPHNow 🙏🙏🙏

"Openness, transparency.  Early detection is the key to save lives" - South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha

“Inaction is the worst action of human beings!”- 
Mehmet Murat ildan

Please do Mass testing for those with comorbidities, PUI's, PUM's and frontliners including high risk individuals like the laundry attendants who wash the clothes of doctors and nurses because they no longer have enough energy to wash their clothes. Those cashiers, guards, baggers who serve you in your local grocery and supermarkets.  Do you want the virus to be transferred to you when you get your change and hold your groceries?

Human beings please do something! Save lives. Let's be kind to one another. Let's unite and make the impossible possible. 

Remember kapag CoViD-19 positive ka may mahahawa ka!

VICE GANDA INSPIRE PEOPLE BY DONATING TO FRONTLINERS

The South Koreans oppa (오빠), hyung (형), noona (누나), and unnie (언니)  donated large amount of money for the research and help for the victims of CoViD-19 virus in South Korea. They are so awe inspiring. 

#LeeMinHo #HyunBin #KimJongKook

I felt so happy when my favorite stars, our very own local talents and celebrities started using their clout and resources to help our government in providing for our less fortunate brothers and sisters. One by one they started helping the displaced and the needy.  Some of them even sent facemasks, gloves etc. to our  frontliners who unselfishly risk their lives for the good of everyone.

Joining the lists of celebrities is Meme Vice Ganda who earlier today started distribution of N95 masks, medical grade Gloves and Goggles, alcohol and Disinfectant Spray to:

1. Lung Center Of the Philippines

2. QC General Hospital

3. San Lazaro Hospital

4. PCMC: PHIL CHILDREN MEDICAL CENTER .

Vice Ganda also posted this on FB:

MARAMING SALAMAT PO SA LHAT NG MGA FRONTLINERS PARA SA PAGMAMAHAL AT PAGKALINGA NINYO SA MGA MADLANG PEOPLE!!! MABUHAY PO KAYO! PAGPALAIN NG DIYOS ANG INYONG KABAYANIHAN.

Thank you TEAM VICE at sa lahat ng mga suppliers! Thank you, Meme Vice Ganda. Mahal Kita Mula noon hanggang ngayon.

BELA PADILLA: Personally Distributed Food to Our Kababayans

Bela Padilla is beautiful inside and out.  She raised Php3.3 Million in just two days to help aid our displaced street vendors , front liners and military.

Bela Padilla followed Community quarantine and isolated herself but got heartbroken when she read on social media the state of some of our fellow Filipinos because of the lockdown due to COVID-19 virus that affected the whole wide world including the Philippines.

She risked exposure to Corona virus by personally distributing the food packs they prepared. But you can see the happiness that radiates in her eyes. Genuine and kind I would again ask you this question: Bela, what it is that you cannot do?

Krista Elyse Hidalgo Carino Sullivan, better known by her stage name Bela Padilla, is a Filipino actress, film producer, screenwriter, occasional host, and model.

Mabuhay ka Bela!

FREE SEVENTY PERCENT ALCOHOL BY GOOD SAMARITAN

Filipina Chemist in Quezon City makes disinfectant alcohol to give away for free

It is very heartwarming to learn about good Samaritans who go out of their way to help others who are in dire need.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10207232296443678&id=1771854937

The only thing she wanted is for the recipient to pay it forward.

Boracay Bliss: A Sun Villa Beachfront Resort Getaway

Hey everyone! We love Boracay! Boracay, Philippines beaches were pristine, tans were golden, and worries seemed to melt away like ice cream on a hot day. Buckle up, because we're visiting our incredible Boracay getaway from February 26 to 28, 2020!

Our home base for this mini-adventure was the Sun Villa Beachfront Resort located at Station 1 in Boracay.  

Let our travelonshoestring team tell you, this place was paradise found. Stepping out of our room, the sound of crashing waves and the salty breeze instantly put us in vacation mode. The beach was just a few steps away, perfect for morning walks with the soft sand between my toes and the calming sound of the ocean.

The budget hotel is located in the very ideal location of Station one and very near D'mall of station two.

It is just a stone throw away from the white sand beach of Boracay. We spent our days soaking up the sun, swimming in the crystal-clear waters, and trying out all the fun water activities Boracay has to offer.

Of course, no Boracay trip is complete without indulging in the local cuisine. We feasted on fresh seafood dishes, tried our hand at the local dishes, and sipped on refreshing mango shake while watching the sunset paint the sky in a million colors.

This Boracay trip was an unforgettable experience. Sun Villa Beachfront Resort provided the perfect setting for relaxation and adventure.

Anyone else been to Boracay? Share your favorite spots and memories in the comments below!

P.S. Boracay'sbmagic is still there. Always be a responsible tourist and help preserve the beauty of this island paradise!