The Philippines is unlikely to push down the number of its new cases of the novel coronavirus disease in July or August, an expert from the University of the Philippines said Thursday.
MANILA — The Philippines is unlikely to flatten the curve or cut down the number of new COVID-19 cases in July or August, an expert from the University of the Philippines said Thursday.
The country is experiencing a « surge » in the rate of people who test positive for the pathogen. About 2,000 new COVID-19 cases are reported daily out of some 20,000 tests per day, said Guido David of the UP Institute of Mathematics.
The reproduction rate of the virus, a way of rating a disease’s ability to spread, is at 1.7 percent in Metro Manila. This is higher than the 1.1 percent reproduction rate in the central province of Cebu and affects the spread of the disease in neighboring regions like Calabarzon and Central Luzon, he said.
