MANILA, Philippines — Fourteen areas under Alert Level 1 are seeing a “gradual rise” in COVID-19 cases, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said during the taped weekly “Talk to the People” briefing with President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday.
Duque did not enumerate the 14 areas . But he named three regions with the highest number of recorded cases from April 12 to 18: Metro Manila with 606 cases, Calabarzon with 226, and Central Luzon with 181 cases.
The top three towns or cities nationwide are Cavite City with 101 cases, Manila with 92, and Quezon City with 82.
According to Duque, this developed despite a report of the Department of Health (DOH) showing fewer cases from April 10 to 17 — a total of 1,674, which gives an average of only 239 positive cases per day nationwide.
The DOH COVID-19 Tracker also showed that only 170 new cases were recorded on Monday, April 18 — much lower than the average number of cases per day in the previous week.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III updates President Rodrigo Duterte during a meeting on Aug. 30, 2021, with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) core members at the Arcadia Active Lifestyle Center in Matina, Davao City. (File photo by JOEY DALUMPINES/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)
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