The National Capital Region (NCR), its neighboring provinces and the rest of Luzon show a slow uptick in Covid-19 cases in mid-May 2022, a health official said Tuesday.
In an online media forum, Department of Health – Health Promotion Bureau Director Beverly Ho noted that the so-called plus areas of Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal and the rest of Luzon are exhibiting a decline in cases in the past days while infections in the Visayas and Mindanao remain in a flat trend with low case counts.
The slight increase in cases brought about an increase in the positivity rate which is now at 1.2 percent.
“Eight out of 17 regions like NCR, CAR, Regions 1,3, 4A, 6, 7 and 9 had increased positivity rate mula 0.1 to 0.6 percentage points. None of the said regions exceeded the 5 percent positivity rate threshold,” Ho said.
The country remains under low risk classification for Covid-19 currently logging one to two weeks positive growth rate.
“Specifically, 13 out of 17 regions with positive two-week growth rate are in the low risk classification while NCR and six other regions show increase in cases in the past week or positive one-week growth rate,” Ho said.
The national healthcare utilization rate remains low risk at 16.81 percent to 17.20 percent.
Source: Philippines News Agency
