During a public briefing in Laging Handa, Octa researcher Guido David asked what other parts of the country were experiencing an increase in COVID-19 infections outside the National Capital Region (NCR).
(In some parts of Calabarzon, especially in Cavite, Laguna, Rizal, there has been construction in simultaneous instances with Metro Manila. )
(In Benguet, he begins, there is a backlog of cases. And in the Western Visayas, more exactly in the Iloilo Area. These are the positions where we have noticed an accumulation of cases. )
David noted that it will be “a matter of time” before other provinces also see an increase in COVID-19 cases.
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“It’s only a matter of time, because there are disorders that can be fixed in time,” he said.
David noted that Metro Manila’s reproduction number is 2. 05, that a user inflamed with COVID-19 can transmit the virus to two other people.
Meanwhile, Undersecretary of Health Maria Rosario Vergeire said in an interview Monday night that the average number of COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila rose from 130 to 255. The NCR positivity rate also increased from 2. 9% to 4. 4%.
In the past, he attributed the accumulation of infections to facilitated mobility, the presence of subvariants, and decreased vaccine immunity.
To date, the country has 4,740 active cases of COVID-19, 529 new infections recorded on Monday.
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