MANILA, Philippines—The spread of COVID-19 cases appears to have taken a detour from the National Capital Region (NCR) to areas outside the so-called NCR Plus bubble.
While average daily cases in NCR declined in the last few days, data from the Department of Health (DOH) showed that the numbers are currently piling up outside the region.
On Wednesday (May 26), the private tracking initiative Octa Research said the average number of daily COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila has slowed to 1,099 in the last seven days, at least 80 percent lower than the average during the peak of the surge in late March to April.
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