What is causing the spike in Covid-19 cases in PH?

A year into the pandemic, the Philippines last March 19 recorded 7,103 cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) – one of the the biggest single-day count in the country since the pandemic began. Last March 22, it breached the 8,000 cases mark, until it tapered to 5,867 new cases logged last March 23 when the government implemented the two-week general community quarantine (GCQ) bubble that is in place from March 22 to April 4.

Although the spike in Covid-19 infections might be linked to the emergence of more contagious new variants of the coronavirus, the Department of Health (DOH) also blamed Filipinos for not sticking to health safety protocols as they once had.