The Department of Health reported that the country’s daily average number of COVID-19 cases rose to 341 last week, a 23-percent increase compared to 278 cases from the week before. | dpazzibuganINQ /PDI
But while confirmed cases continued to climb, the occupancy of reserved COVID-19 hospital beds remained at low risk or below 20 percent.
Independent monitoring team OCTA Research, meanwhile, reported a hike in the positivity rate—or the percentage of those found positive for the virus among all who were tested—in Metro Manila and 13 provinces. The other provinces with a positivity rate above 5 percent were Misamis Oriental, 22.7 percent; Camarines Sur, 21.1 percent; Rizal, 20.2 percent; South Cotabato, 10 percent; Cebu, 9.7 percent; Cavite, 9.4 percent; Davao del Sur, 9.4 percent; Benguet, 8.9 percent; Isabela, 8.3 percent; Laguna, 7.9 percent; Negros Occidental, 7.5 percent; Zamboanga del Sur, 7 percent; and Pampanga, 5.3 percent.
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