COVID-19 cases nationwide are plateauing as the number of new cases daily stayed at the 1,000 mark for the seventh straight day on Wednesday, although new infections are going up in some areas. | kdevillaINQ /PDI
Based on the DOH’s COVID-19 tracker, 1,476 new cases were reported on Wednesday, slightly up from the 1,165 recorded the day before. The latest number brought active cases to 12,706 and the country’s total COVID-19 tally to 4,106,974.
In Metro Manila, the weekly positivity rate stood at 24.2 percent as of Tuesday, up from 19.7 percent in the previous week. “Exceeding 25 percent is almost a given at this time. We still expect the peak to happen within one to two weeks,” OCTA Research fellow Guido David said in a Twitter post. The World Health Organization recommends a positivity rate of below 5 percent to signify that the spread of the virus is under control. The positivity rate is the number of confirmed infected individuals out of the total number of those who underwent reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction testing.
In a previous briefing, DOH officer in charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said that COVID-19 was still around and it was normal “that we expect an increase or a decrease in cases in our communities” even after WHO’s declaration that the virus was no longer a global public health emergency.Subscribe to our daily newsletter
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