MANILA, Philippines — The COVID-19 reproduction number and seven-day average of new cases in Metro Manila have slightly gone up, OCTA Research said Wednesday as it also listed eight areas of concern outside the NCR Plus bubble.
In its monitoring report, OCTA said the reproduction number in Metro Manila from May 26 to June 1 was 0.68, higher than the 0.57 from the previous week.
Reproduction number is the number of cases estimated to originate from one case of COVID-19.
Meanwhile, the seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases in the region was 1,135 which shows a one-week growth rate of eight percent. The research group said this is the “first time the region had an increase sinc…
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