OCTA: COVID-19 cases declining, but Metro Manila still high-riskCommuters prepare their face shields as they board an EDSA carousel bus at the Monumento station in Quezon City on Sept. 23, 2021. MANILA, Philippines — While the daily number of new COVID-19 cases is going down, OCTA Research said Metro Manila remains under a high-risk level of infection. Twelve, however, are still at high risk based on new COVID-19 cases per day, growth rates, average daily attack rate, and hospital and intensive care unit bed utilization. “The seven-day average of new cases in the NCR was 4,220 with a one-week growth rate of 20 percent and a reproduction number of 0.94,” OCTA said. The government is presently eyeing to ramp up its daily vaccination rate once the surge of cases subsides, the National Task Force (NTF) against COVID-19 said yesterday.

Source: Philippine Star September 26, 2021 16:03 UTC