MANILA, Philippines — The reproduction number of COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila has decreased after a week of enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), OCTA Research said Monday, even as the Department of Health (DOH) says that such decrease was “artificial.”
Based on the latest monitoring report of OCTA, the reproduction number,or the average number of persons who may be infected by a COVID-19 positive individual, is 1.61 in Metro Manila from March 29 to April 4.
“The reproduction number decreased from 1.88, and after one week of ECQ, it is clear that the lockdown has been effective in slowing down the increase in the number of new cases in the NCR,” the researchers said.
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