On Thursday, October 1, the Philippines entered the list of the 20 countries with the number of coronavirus cases in the world.
This is after the Ministry of Health (DOH) reported 2,415 new cases, bringing the country’s total to 314,079. The list can be found at the Worldometer and the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center.
With the addition, the Philippines defeated Pakistan, which ranks 21 with 312806 cases of coronavirus, the Philippines is now just a niche from Italy, which has 314,861 cases, and it is imaginable that the Southeast Asian country will overcome it in a few days. or even hours.
The Philippines already has the maximum instances of COVID-19 in Southeast Asia.
Globally, the United States remains the country most affected by the coronavirus, reporting 7. 5 million instances, followed by India with 6. 3 million instances, Brazil with 4. 8 million instances and Russia in fourth place with 1. 2 million instances.
On Thursday, the death toll in the Philippines increased with 59 new deaths, now 5562.
The Manila metropolitan area continues to be the source of the most new cases, with 930 reported Thursday, followed by Cavite (238 cases), Rizal (128 cases), Laguna (123 cases) and Western Negros (103 cases).
Despite the higher count, the government noted that of more than 314,000 cases, 17% or 54,294 are active cases.
More and more people continue because of the disease. On Thursday, 771 new infections were reported, bringing the total to 254,223.
While COVID-19 continues to increase, Duterte administration has highlighted promising pandemic trends in the country.
Research through the Octa organization indicated that the number of reproductions, or the number of others that a positive case can infect, remained below 1 for a few weeks in the Manila metropolitan area.
“On August 14, we reached some 4,000 new instances in the NCR (Region of the National Capital). Now our new NCR instances have been reduced to 1,200. The other day we were very satisfied because the new instances in the NCR were 502. . R0 (R nil) and positive [rate] have also fallen,” the National Plan of Action opposed to COVID-19 implementation leader Carlito Gálvez Jr. said Thursday.
Despite promising recent figures, the Octa Group warned that they opposed complacency, saying the tendency to continue longer for the country to say it had controlled the epidemic.
Continued adherence to the use of masks, physical distance, meeting restrictions and others still remain until an effective vaccine is administered to a significant portion of the population – Rappler. com