5 Metro Manila LGUs

down to moderate risk for

COVID-19 — OCTA
By: Daniza Fernandez - @inquirerdotnet
INQUIRER.net / 01:58 PM September 26, 2021

FILE Patients are watched over by relatives and hospital aides inside the
COVID-19 emergency room of the government hospital National Kidney
and Transplant Institute, which has declared overcapacity amid rising
coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections in Quezon City, Metro Manila.
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MANILA, Philippines — Five local government units in Metro Manila are
now under moderate risk for COVID-19 as the reproduction number for
the capital region dropped to 0.94, OCTA Research reported on Sunday.

According to Dr. Guido David, OCTA Research fellow, the moderate risk
LGUs are Pateros, Valenzuela, Manila, Malabon, and Navotas. David
claimed that the risk levels are based on indicators calculated by COVID
Act Now, an organization based in the United States, and may not reflect
the alert level ratings by the Department of Health.
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The rest of Metro Manila, meanwhile, remained at high risk for the
coronavirus, possibly driven by the highly transmissible Delta variant.
9.26.21 report for the NCR. NCR still at high risk, but Navotas, Malabon,
Manila, Valenzuela and Pateros at moderate risk (based on Covid Act
Now). @dzbb @dzrhnews @cnnphilippines @allangatus @smninews @d
wiz882 @NewsRmn @EagleNews pic.twitter.com/xrqgkcpVJu
— Dr. Guido David (@iamguidodavid) September 26, 2021
The seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila was 4,220
with a -20 percent one-week growth rate, said OCTA.
The group’s update further showed that the capital region’s positivity rate
over the past seven days was 19 percent which is considered high.

The average daily attack rate (ADAR) or the number of new daily cases
per 100,000 is recorded at 30.22 percent from September 19 to 25.

Figures also showed that COVID-19 hospital bed and intensive care unit
occupancy in Metro Manila are at 61 percent and 76 percent, respectively.

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