I was just looking at some table listing the countries, incident and deaths. One thing that did strike me and I’m not sure how to explain it is the Philippines. It reported its first case pretty early but no much spread since then.
They get a lot of Chinese and South Korean people—both tourists and relocating to to business there. Even when it’s “cold” there for the population most people from Europe or North America would say it is hot.
The Philippines is not really known as one of the most organized governments or one that has a good regulatory or health care system (some good hospitals but move away from a major city not so much).
Why have they only reported 3 cases (all in late January and early February) an nothing since?
We know it was spreading in Singapore. Average temperature there is 25-30C and humid. So I’m going to go with yes, but it might spread slower.
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I was just looking at some table listing the countries, incident and deaths. One thing that did strike me and I’m not sure how to explain it is the Philippines. It reported its first case pretty early but no much spread since then.
They get a lot of Chinese and South Korean people—both tourists and relocating to to business there. Even when it’s “cold” there for the population most people from Europe or North America would say it is hot.
The Philippines is not really known as one of the most organized governments or one that has a good regulatory or health care system (some good hospitals but move away from a major city not so much).
Why have they only reported 3 cases (all in late January and early February) an nothing since?
Almost certainly lack of testing community acquired cases.
Is that just your guess, or is it confirmed that they don’t bother to test community members of infected people?
The first death in the Philippines was a Chinese tourist as far as I understand.
Spreading slower might be sufficient. If it spreads slowly enough, the containment methods already in place will work.