COVID-19 is again surging in Western European countries like Britain, France, Germany and Italy.
Reports yesterday said the uptick is due to a “perfect storm” of their governments’ lifting pandemic restrictions, waning immunity and the more contagious BA.2 Omicron subvariant, according to experts.
In addition, China has subjected millions of their people to lockdowns due to a similar surge of COVID-19 cases.
Western Europe and China are seeing dramatic resurgence of infections in recent days. One example is Germany which has a daily record of 300,000 infections.
The scary experience of Europe and China is a reason why Filipinos should stop being complacent. We should never for a moment think that we have become invincible to infections because the number of cases have fallen and we have been given an Alert Level One status.
There must be no letup in the vaccination rollout. Let’s continue listening to the experts, especially that we are in the midst of an electoral campaign wherein sometimes as many as 100,000 people converge totally forgetting social distancing.
