One sensational thing that happened very recently in Davao City is the partial opening of the much-vaunted Davao City Coastal Road, particularly the 18.5-kilometer portion of the road.
To be sure, the road is open only to people in jogging and other forms of exercises, and a bit of sight-seeing, not yet to vehicles as the road will be ruined by vehicular traffic.
Still Dabawenyo health experts and concerned citizens are worried about the effect of opening the road to a great number of people. They are afraid that as more people visit the coastal road, the more chances the corona virus of the Omicron variant will spread and infect a great number of people in a surge of new cases.
Dr. Michelle Schlosser, spokesperson of the City’s COVID-19 Task Force, has called on unvaccinated Dabawenyos to get themselves jabbed, warning that 75 cases of the highly transmissible Omicron variant was detected in the city very recently.
The good news is that those who got infected of the Omicron variant recovered fast, still Dabawenyos should not be complacent.
What Dr. Schlosser might also meant was that residents of the city must continue to follow health protocols as the virus remains a threat in our thickly-populated city.
