Health experts: Mass testing, contact tracing, strict isolation needed to support NCR granular lockdown

Health experts in the country are one in saying that the implementation of granular lockdowns in Metro Manila starting Sept. 8 is not enough to significantly decrease COVID-19 cases in the region.

Health experts in the country agree that the implementation of granular lockdowns in Metro Manila starting Sept. 8 would not be enough to significantly decrease COVID-19 cases in the region.

"Our local governments will have a hard time in this setup because of their limited manpower. For example, there are 100 barangays in a city and 10 of them only have cases, it will be easier to implement a granular lockdown. But if there are 90 barangays with cases, the local government will have a hard time dealing with those because there will be persons assigned to man the locked down area and bring food there," Guido told CNN Philippines' Newsroom Weekend on Sunday.

"That is where the testing, the tracing, the isolating comes in especially among the informal settlers," he added.

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