MANILA, Philippines — Marikina City currently has nearly 1,500 active COVID-19 cases, the most since the start of the pandemic last year, Mayor Marcelino Teodoro disclosed Friday.
Teodoro said the city has 1,486 active COVID-19 cases as of March 26.
“This is the highest number of cases that we’re having since the start of the pandemic last year,” Teodoro said in an interview on ABS-CBN News Channel.
Teodoro said that in January this year, the city only had 112 cases. By March, however, the number of cases increased to 277 and eventually to nearly 1,500.
“We could see that it has increased almost ten-fold the number that we hav…
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