By Ma. Teresa Montemayor | Philippine News Agency
MANILA – The National Capital Region (NCR) is classified as very low risk for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with an average of only 79 new cases per day from Dec. 14 to 20, the OCTA Research Group said on Tuesday (Dec. 21).
“The incidence or ADAR (average daily attack rate) was at 0.55 per day per 100,000 individuals while the reproduction number was 0.48,” the group said in its latest report.
It added that the NCR’s test positivity rate was 0.6% and it has an average of 18,127 RT-PCR tests over the past seven days.
The 15 local government units (LGUs) in the NCR classified very low for COVID-19 include Pateros, Muntinlupa, Navotas, Caloocan, Marikina, Pasay, Taguig, Quezon City, Mandaluyong, Pasig, Malabon, Parañaque, Valenzuela, Manila, and Makati.
Among the 15 LGUs, only Pateros logged zero new cases of COVID-19. The other LGUs recorded one to 15 new infections. Their ADARs are below one.
Meanwhile, two LGUs — Las Piñas and San Juan — were classified as low risk for COVID-19 with ADARs of 1.10 and 1.19 respectively. San Juan logged a healthcare utilization rate of 33% while Las Piñas has only 9%.
“The metrics used are based on covidactnow.org not the same with the metrics used by the IATF [Inter Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases] and the DOH [Department of Health],” OCTA said. (PNA) – bny
