MANILA, Philippines — A new surge of COVID-19 cases — this time spreading quicker — has already started in the National Capital Region, research group OCTA Research said Monday.
In its latest report, OCTA Research said the rise in new COVID-19 cases in some of Metro Manila local government units (LGUs) is alarming because the reproduction rate in NCR has increased to 1.5 compared to the country’s reproduction rate of 1.2.
Currently, the seven-day average of new cases in NCR is at 762 — 61 percent and 94 percent higher than the previous weeks and two weeks prior, respectively. The group warned that if left unchecked, the government is looking at a scenario of 2,200 new daily ca…
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