Metro Manila remains at moderate risk for COVID-19 and will shift to Alert Level 1 only if the average daily attack rate drops to 7 per 100,000 population, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said Thursday. Read more 👇
In an interview on GMA-7, Duque said that although new COVID-19 cases have dropped 83 percent in the last two weeks the average daily attack rate or ADAR was still high at 12.2.
The Philippines logged 4,575 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the total case count to 3,627,575, the Department of Health reported.ADVERTISEMENT There were 93,307 active cases, of which 3,316 were asymptomatic; 85,244 were mild; 2,991 were moderate; 1,444 were severe; and 312 were critical. In Metro Manila, 31 percent of ICU beds, 28 percent of isolation beds, 29 percent of ward beds, and 18 percent of ventilators, are in use.
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