MANILA, Philippines — A less stringent quarantine status may be imposed next week if the reproduction number of COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila is reduced to 1.2, a member of the OCTA Research group said on Tuesday.
As of Monday, the reproduction number in the National Capital Region (NCR) has gone down to 1.53, OCTA Research fellow Professor Guido David said in an interview over Teleradyo.
The reproduction number or R-naught is the transmission rate of a disease, where the number equals how many people a patient can infect. An R-naught of one means each patient can infect another potential patient.
David said that after the second week of the enhanced community q…
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