Coronovirus in the Philippines

Cases are up but deaths are low, for now anyway.

https://amp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject....hilippines-covid-lockdown-intl-hnk/index.html

Bit of a mockery of the "priority list" I know of someone else who just had their vaccine who was taken to the vaccine centre by her sister, a nurse, and was given the shot despite the fact she isn't in a priority group and is only 23 years old.

I wonder how long it will take for the Philippines tourist industry to recover?
It was in poor shape even before the pandemic.

When do you think you will travel there again, Jim?

I am hoping for you and your family (and for other members here too) that the infections stabilise and diminish over there, Jim, to the level that other governments will not see the Philippines as a hot-spot and that travel will be back to a similar situation as before.
It is easier for me to say as my kids are in the UK, but staying hopeful and optimistic will help our spirits through this continuing dark cloud until "every cloud has a silver lining"

Sister in law in the Philippines says she doesn’t want a Chinese vaccine!

Duterte agrees he doesn't want the one currently on offer.
https://mobile-reuters-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN2AS09I?amp_js_v=a6&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQHKAFQArABIA==#aoh=16173864598273&csi=1&referrer=https://www.google.com&amp_tf=From %1$s&ampshare=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-philippines-vaccin-idUSKCN2AS09I

https://news-abs--cbn-com.cdn.amppr...trada-in-stable-but-guarded-condition-jinggoy

Just had a Skype message from a feller livening in the Philippines....


“I am getting tired of all this to be honest. This is dragging on way too long. The Chinese drugs cause more damage than they help so they are off the shelves here now. I sometimes wonder what it's going to be like once this Pandemic is finally over. But then the stupidity of people here just gets me down. I see them walking around no masks on or face shields just begging to catch COVID. It utter madness everywhere mate.”

Welcome to the Philippines.

I have commented on this a few times, I know for a 100% fact in different locations in the PI it's business as usual, people going into each others houses, visiting friends, socialising etc, small wonder duterte said he will lock the country down till 2023 or that the PI is now on our red list.

This guy has been in the Philippines a number of years now. Approximately 8. He has always been very upbeat about the country, in the past. Loved it there.

I asked him to clarify on the “Chinese drugs” and indeed he was referring to the vaccine.

We also know of a couple of Filipinos resident in the IoM who are quarantining in the Philippines right now having visited recently. Quarantining before they can leave the Philippines.