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[PedroMorales]

Nesthy Petecio is in the medals' stakes, having made the semi final of the women's featherweight boxing. She is the first Pinay to win a medal at boxing. The last time a Pinoy boxer won a a medal was 1996 and the last time the Philippines won multiple medals was at the 1932 LA Olympics, when some of the guys here were in their prime. (bronzes in boxing, high jumping and swimming).

As Petecio is fancied to go further, the question is what effects this will have on the Philippines and Duterte's curfews? Petecio is from Davao del Sur so Duterte will want to milk it.

I would expect the place to go bananas and the lock downs to be ignored.

[PedroMorales]

Some of the best experiences ast the Tokyo Olympics were the heroic women who won gold for the Philippines (weight lifting), Thailand (taekwondo) and India (silver in weight lifting). All three deservedly got heroes welcome on their return home, with the Pinay, a sergeants in the Air Force, clocking up over $1 million and counting. My question is: how did all three get home as international travel is severely constricted.

[WestCoast1]

Just reading through her wiki page "Hidilyn Diaz is the fifth of six children. Her father was a tricycle driver before becoming a farmer and a fisherman. "

Small town girl makes good. No, she makes great. Hi-five and go team Diaz.

Picture. 659 K jabs in one day. Things are looking up. Except that guy, the patient getting jabbed. Why does he look oddly like. . . Me?

[BrizLad]

Congratulations to Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz who has won a gold medal at the current Tokyo Olympics.

Just reading through her wiki page "Hidilyn Diaz is the fifth of six children. Her father was a tricycle driver before becoming a farmer and a fisherman. ".

Puts a new context to 55 kg spinner.

[Nolz7]

Congratulations to Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz who has won a gold medal at the current Tokyo Olympics. It is the first gold ever for the Philippines. When she won silver in Rio, she was the first Pinay ever to win a medal. It is good to see Pinays shine. They deserve a lot more than vagina obsessed sickos. Congrats so far to Japan too.

Medal wise, well done Japan, China, Russia, Hungary, Tunisia, Iran, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia (Colombia, Ivory Coast, Mexico.

Colombia has a hot Archer chick.

[PedroMorales]

Congratulations to Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz who has won a gold medal at the current Tokyo Olympics. It is the first gold ever for the Philippines. When she won silver in Rio, she was the first Pinay ever to win a medal. It is good to see Pinays shine. They deserve a lot more than vagina obsessed sickos. Congrats so far to Japan too.

Medal wise, well done Japan, China, Russia, Hungary, Tunisia, Iran, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia (Colombia, Ivory Coast, Mexico.

[WestCoast1]

Presumably this 27 million figure is for the total number of vaccine shots that have been delivered here to date - if so, allowing for the number of doses that have been used (see below), that would mean the current stock is about 10.7 million doses?

Sounds about right.

From the DOH FB account. Some more DOH graphics from the past few days. 17 million jabs: 11 million first does, 6 million both doses.

Averaging 300 k doses per day (7-day average). Average number of daily reporting active vax sites: 1355 (last 7 days).

DOH priority categories: A1 (Front liner / Health workers), A2 (Senior citizens), A3 (Co-morbidity), A4 (Front liner / Essential Sectors), A5 (Indigent).

The other graphic is the number of reported variant cases. Currently 119 detected Delta variant.

[Mdemde]

Insight from a pic. Approximately 27 million jabs in Phils now.

Presumably this 27 million figure is for the total number of vaccine shots that have been delivered here to date - if so, allowing for the number of doses that have been used (see below), that would mean the current stock is about 10.7 million doses?

As for the actual numbers that have been jabbed, according to this report today (link below), 5. 5 million have been jabbed twice ie have been fully vaccinated, and a further 10.8 million have received their first jab.

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MANILA Over 5. 5 million Filipinos have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, with total doses administered topping 16.4 million, a government task force said on Saturday.

In a statement, the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 said 10,866,238 have received their first jab against the disease, while 5,560,029 are fully immunized, accounting for 9. 58 percent of the minimum 58 million government target by yearend. <END.

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/24/...ate-july242021

[Mdemde]

I'm in Cebu City which still has an overnight curfew, and it starts at 11 pm. In Manila and the NCR the overnight curfew starts at 12 midnight, but from tomorrow night it will revert back to a 10 pm start.

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MMDA chief: Curfew hours to be extended in NCR amid COVID-19 Delta variant threat.

ABS-CBN News. Posted at Jul 24 2021 10:15 AM. Updated as of Jul 24 2021 05:21 PM.

MANILA (UPDATE) Metro Manila will see longer curfew hours starting next week following the capital region's change in quarantine classification due to the threat of the highly infectious COVID-19 Delta variant.

Metropolitan Manila Development Authority chairman Benhur Abalos Jr. Said they will be releasing a new resolution on curfew hours for the National Capital Region, which will be extended to 6 hours, from 10 pm To 4 am.

In a tweet Saturday afternoon, the MMDA said enforcement of longer curfew hours will start Sunday, July 25.

The current curfew hours are from 12 am To 4 am, shorter by two hours. <END.

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/24/...variant-threat

[WestCoast1]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/vaccinate...071043169.html

From Reuters yesterday, out of Singapore. Fully and partially vaxxed persons (hundreds in the past month) testing positive for Covid (mostly minor symptoms, if any). As asymptomatics carriers, they become infectious. From the article:

While the data shows that vaccines are highly effective in preventing severe cases, it also underscores the risk that even those inoculated could be contagious, so that inoculation alone may not suffice to halt transmission.

Of Singapore's 1,096 locally transmitted infections in the last 28 days, 484, or about 44%, were in fully vaccinated people, while 30% were partially vaccinated and just over 25% were unvaccinated, Thursday's data showed.

While seven cases of serious illness required oxygen, and another was in critical condition in intensive care, none of the eight had been fully vaccinated, the health ministry said.

SNIP.

"As more and more people are vaccinated in Singapore, we will see more infections happening among vaccinated people," Teo Yik Ying, dean of the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

"It is important to always compare it against the proportion of people who remain unvaccinated...Suppose Singapore achieves a rate of 100% fully vaccinated...then all infections will stem from the vaccinated people and none from the unvaccinated."

[WestCoast1]

The government has been running a consistent, ever more pervasive campaign to get as many people vaccinated as possible and appears to have strictly targeted specific populations in priority order. I have a friend here who's from one of the richest, most influential families in the city, and even she could not get vaccinated until it was her turn to do so.

Concur. All of my foreigner friends here (who wanted it) have been fully vaxxed (except one who is half-vaxxed), by at least a month ago. Advantage (at least somewhat) is their age: Seniors.

The process in Manila was as follows: You register on a government website, and they email or send you a Vax eye dee card with your picture and a unique QR code. Show it at your local Brgy office and a nurse makes an appointment for you at the next dose #1 vax site. Show up (with your vax eye dee QR code for scanning) and get vaxxed. Once vaxxed you get a card with your followup date for does #2. That's it. I have seen more than a dozen cattle-call vax sites around Manila, at Brgy stations and in malls. Hundreds or thousands line up. I saw a DOH graphic on FB recently congratulating Phils on a record-dosing day (just a few days ago) of 600 K doses in one day.

OTOH. A girl in North Mindanao tells me that there have been no general public jabs yet in her city of several hundred thousand. Front-liners and seniors only (they are still working the senior crowd). Not enough jabs delivered to the area yet. I'm not sure if the wealthy there are getting theirs there. Briz I will PM you.

[PBtoCobra]

Agreed, had both my doses in Makati. Due to having a medical condition that puts me at increased risk I was seen as being more urgent to be vaccinated than many locals I know who registered at least a month before me. Both times I went the delivery of jab was efficient, there were no opportunities for people to queue jump as every stage was regulated.

A friend living in Makati has some medical issues and was prioritised, and his wife was able to jump the queue, as she accompanied him. She is much younger and has no underlying health issues. It just made sense to get her vaccinated at the same time, and that I think makes sense. She did not have an appointment, but was clearly at the right place and the right time.

[Muttley81]

I understand the cynicism, but here in Davao at least, it's not warranted. The government has been running a consistent, ever more pervasive campaign to get as many people vaccinated as possible and appears to have strictly targeted specific populations in priority order. I have a friend here who's from one of the richest, most influential families in the city, and even she could not get vaccinated until it was her turn to do so.

GE.

Agreed, had both my doses in Makati. Due to having a medical condition that puts me at increased risk I was seen as being more urgent to be vaccinated than many locals I know who registered at least a month before me. Both times I went the delivery of jab was efficient, there were no opportunities for people to queue jump as every stage was regulated.

[GoodEnough]

Thanks. Well that's half. I am so cynical these days.

They will first be used on politicians, their families, their rich friends. Then senior bureaucrats, their families and their rich friends, board members of semi govt organisations like CDC and others, airport corporation execs, COMLEC etc.

The remaining doses will be held until all of the above are serviced and by then the doses will have expired. I feel it will be like the donated rice of the last typhoon which was allowed to rot instead of being given out.

I understand the cynicism, but here in Davao at least, it's not warranted. The government has been running a consistent, ever more pervasive campaign to get as many people vaccinated as possible and appears to have strictly targeted specific populations in priority order. I have a friend here who's from one of the richest, most influential families in the city, and even she could not get vaccinated until it was her turn to do so.

GE.

[WestCoast1]

The first 1. 6 million doses of J&J arrived two days ago, though the article I read did not indicate where they would ultimately be used in the country. GE.

Thanks. Well that's half. I am so cynical these days.

They will first be used on politicians, their families, their rich friends. Then senior bureaucrats, their families and their rich friends, board members of semi govt organisations like CDC and others, airport corporation execs, COMLEC etc.

Insight from a pic. Approximately 27 million jabs in Phils now.