Aurora, Quezon now at very low risk for COVID-19, says OCTA

Quezon province COVID-19

MANILA, Philippines — The provinces of Aurora and Quezon are now at very low risk for COVID-19, a fellow of the independent analytics group OCTA Research said Saturday.

In a Twitter post, Dr. Guido David said Aurora and Quezon’s COVID-19 growth rates are -50 percent and -40 percent, respectively.

Aurora’s average daily attack rate (Adar) meanwhile is 0.74 while Quezon’s is at 0.37.

The Adar is the number of new infections per 100,000 people.

Meanwhile, Aurora and Quezon’s reproduction numbers are 0.24 and 0.18, within health experts’ ideal figure of less than one, an indication of slower virus transmission.

Meanwhile, Aurora’s healthcare and intensive care unit (ICU) utilization rate are both at zero percent.

Quezon, on the other hand, has an 11-percent and 15-percent healthcare and ICU utilization rate. Its positivity rate is 3 percent which is within the World Health Organization’s recommendation of 5 percent or lower.

Further, the National Capital Region remains at low risk with a 4 percent positivity rate.

/MUF
Read more...