True, BreakForTheLight that it the vaccinations do need some time to reach full effect. It's still a jarring contrast that other countries vaccinating at similar rates to here that started at about the same time are starting to see new cases decline and no such trend can be observed here.


Today we had another day of over 5,000 new cases. 9 municipalities in the Metropolitan Region will go back into quarantine as of Thursday. We were spared for now. Most were densely populated urban areas. However the rural community just to the west of us was on the list.