DOH sorry 'for confusion,' says PH still in 1st wave of COVID19 transmission
MANILA — Contrary to Health Secretary Francisco Duque III’s statement that the Philippines is already on its second wave of its COVID-19 outbreak, the Department of Health clarified on Thursday that the country is still on its first wave.
She said this a few hours after Roque said that Duque’s initial statement was based on his personal opinion. Duque was supported by epidemiologist John Wong, a member of the sub-technical working group on data analytics of the Inter-Agency Task Force on COVID-19, who said that the first wave was the three Chinese nationals who tested positive while in the Philippines.
(If you remember, local community transmission happened when we first reported cases of Filipinos without exposure to positive cases or without travel history. “Since then the average number of cases has declined to around 220 cases per day,” she pointed out. “This is the reason why we are saying that we have started to flatten the curve.”
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