MANILA - The number of Covid-19 cases continue to increase across all regions with a national positivity rate of 4.1 percent but the average daily attack rate remains low, a health official said Tuesday. In an online media forum, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the current positivity rate is similar with the rate the country logged at the start of March this year. "Nationally, we have recorded 4,976 new cases from June 21 to June 27. While we're under low risk classification, the cases continue to rise at 710 cases per day, 257 cases or 57 percent more than the previous week," she said. "There's nothing to worry about because we're still at less than one case per 100,000 population for our average daily attack rate." The National Capital Region (NCR) shows a steep increase in the number of Covid-19 cases which started in mid-May and has an average of 350 cases per day. The rest of Luzon, NCR Plus areas, and the Visayas logged sharp incr
(File photo) MANILA - A slight increase in Covid-19 cases in the National Capital Region (NCR) is recorded starting mid-May while infections in other areas decreased, a health official said Tuesday. In an online media forum, Department of Health (DOH) Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire noted that Covid-19 cases in the NCR plus areas and the rest of Luzon also showed a slight increase. Data from the DOH Covid-19 tracker show that NCR's average Covid-19 cases for the week of May 5 to 11 is only 431. It went up to 522 cases for the following week - from May 12 to 18 - and went down to 477 cases for the week of May 19 to 25. "Ngunit, mapapansin na unti-unting bumababa ang mga kasong ito sa (However, there is a decrease seen in the) plus areas and the rest of Luzon. On the other hand, cases in Visayas and Mindanao were in plateau and remained low," she said. The NCR and other island groups have had less than 100 daily cases since early April. The country remains under low-r
(File photo) MANILA - More than 40 million individuals are due to receive their booster doses of Covid-19 vaccines, a health official said Tuesday. In an online media forum, the Department of Health - Health Promotion Bureau Director Beverly Ho said over 14 million have received their booster shots while more than 142,000 have been vaccinated with their second booster shot. "As of May 30, more than 69.3 million Filipinos, 77 percent of our target population, have been fully vaccinated," she said. For the elderly population, about 6.7 million are fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Meantime, almost 9 million of the immunocompromised population have completed the primary series of Covid-19 vaccine. "We already have 2.7 million children ages 5 to 11 years old have received their primary series and almost 9.4 million adolescent population ages 12 to 17 years old are fully inoculated," Ho added. The DOH urges fully vaccinated individuals to receive their booster shots as
MANILA - The National Capital Region (NCR), its neighboring provinces and the rest of Luzon show a slow uptick in Covid-19 cases in mid-May 2022, a health official said Tuesday. In an online media forum, Department of Health - Health Promotion Bureau Director Beverly Ho noted that the so-called plus areas of Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal and the rest of Luzon are exhibiting a decline in cases in the past days while infections in the Visayas and Mindanao remain in a flat trend with low case counts. The slight increase in cases brought about an increase in the positivity rate which is now at 1.2 percent. "Eight out of 17 regions like NCR, CAR, Regions 1,3, 4A, 6, 7 and 9 had increased positivity rate mula 0.1 to 0.6 percentage points. None of the said regions exceeded the 5 percent positivity rate threshold," Ho said. The country remains under low risk classification for Covid-19 currently logging one to two weeks positive growth rate. "Specifically, 13 out of 17 regio
MANILA- Cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in the National Capital Region and the rest of Luzon showed a slow uptick trend starting mid-May, a health official said Tuesday. In an online media forum, Department of Health Epidemiology Bureau Director Alethea de Guzman said the cases remained low at less than 100 infections in all island groups since April. "Bagaman mababa na ang ating mga kaso, kelangan i-monitor ang mga pagtaas na ito kahit hindi ito nagta-translate sa pagtaas ng ating national positivity rate na nanatili at 1.1 percent nitong nakaraang linggo (While the cases remain low, the increase in cases must be monitored even if they don't translate to increase in our national positivity rate which remain at 1.1 percent in the past week)," she said. The country and all its regions remained under minimal to low-risk classification. The nation has a positive growth rate of 15 percent from May 10 to 23 with 2,271 active cases. As of May 21, the Covid-19 b