The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Cebu City now represents about 88 percent of the 1,606 infections recorded on the entire island of Cebu as of 11 a.m. of Friday, Department of Health (DOH) records showed. Too earlyOn Thursday, Cebu recorded its highest surge of cases at 200 in one day, higher than the 111 new cases recorded in Metro Manila on the same day. The cases in Cebu City, as of Friday, also inched closer to the 1,464 virus cases recorded in Quezon City on Thursday, the hardest hit area in the National Capital Region (NCR). By Friday, however, the number of new cases in Cebu dropped to 28, while the NCR recorded 84 new cases. Mainly, the increase of cases in Cebu was because of different jails which had outbreaks,” she added in Filipino.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 08, 2020 21:00 UTC