{"id":63705,"date":"2021-12-15T18:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=63705"},"modified":"2021-12-15T18:21:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T10:21:51","slug":"ph-remains-under-alert-level-2-until-dec-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2021\/12\/15\/ph-remains-under-alert-level-2-until-dec-31\/","title":{"rendered":"PH remains under Alert Level 2 until Dec 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaca\u00f1ang announced that the entire country will remain under Alert Level 2 until the end of 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63031\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/10\/rsz_1pexels-markus-winkler-3716667.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/10\/rsz_1pexels-markus-winkler-3716667.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/10\/rsz_1pexels-markus-winkler-3716667-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/10\/rsz_1pexels-markus-winkler-3716667-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">IMAGE from Pexels<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Acting Palace Spokesperson Karlo Nograles said the Inter-Agency Task Force Infectious Diseases decided to retain the alert level status as the Department of Health (DOH) reported the first two cases of the omicron variant of COVID-19 in the country.<\/p>\n<p>A Filipino who arrived from Japan via Philippine Airlines flight PR 0427 last Dec 1, and a Nigerian who arrived from his home country last Nov 30 via Oman Air flight WY 843 tested positive for the omicron variant last Dec 7.<\/p>\n<p>Omicron, first detected in South Africa in Nov, was declared a variant of concern by the UN health agency. The World Health Organization said that this one has been confirmed in 77 countries and is spreading faster than previous variants.<\/p>\n<p>As of Dec 15, DOH has recorded 237 new cases to 2,836,915 confirmed COVID-19 cases have been recorded in the Philippines, of which 10,193 are active. COVID-19 deaths increased by 100 to 50,449. Meanwhile, there have been an additional 565 recoveries, raising its total number to 2,776,273.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/doh.gov.ph\/covid19casebulletin641\">DOH<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines will remain under Alert Level 2 until the end of 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":62097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[15356,12848,15395],"class_list":["post-63705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-news-and-current-events","tag-alert-level-2","tag-covid-19","tag-omicron-variant"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/c5d2d4f4ce52de979cef8fb9e36956cc.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63705"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63711,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63705\/revisions\/63711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}