MANILA, Philippines — It is unlikely to see a downward trend in COVID-19 cases for the next two weeks despite the government task force’s decision to place Metro Manila and four adjacent provinces under a general community quarantine (GCQ) bubble, a fellow at the OCTA Research group said Tuesday.
In an interview over CNN Philippines, Dr. Guido David of the OCTA Research group explained that as of the moment, the reproduction number of COVID-19 in Metro Manila is at 2.1.
The reproduction number, also known as the R-naught or R0, is the transmission rate of a disease, where the number equals to how many people a patient can infect, where an R-naught of one means each patien…
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