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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 12) — The Department of Health said it is observing the increase in the country's COVID-19 cases in the past four days.
"We have seen for the past 4 days,
nakita natin na tumataas yung kaso natin [we have seen that cases are increasing] compared to the 7-day moving average
na mayroon tayo [that we have] during the holiday period," Health Undersecretary Ma. Rosario Vergeire said in a briefing Tuesday.
She added that department has observed a 1.1 reproduction rate in the whole country. This is around the same as the 1.17 reported by the OCTA Research Team for Metro Manila, meaning more people are getting infected.