Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, October 8) — Early analysis indicated the recent decline in the country’s COVID-19 cases is not artificial, an official said Friday.
“Because we are seeing that positivity rate and admissions are also going down, that is why we pointed to that analysis already that really cases are going down,” DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said in an online media forum.
“We just need to further analyze how much of this antigen test affected our outputs,” she added.
The DOH earlier checked whether the downtrend in new cases was “artificial” due to the recent drop in COVID-19 tests done.
The department has been logging around 9,000 to 10,000 cases daily in the past few days. There were days in September when the case counts hit above 20,000.
But Vergeire urged the public not to let their guard down and continue to comply with health protocols, as some areas still have high hospitalization rates and increasing cases.
She noted cases remain high in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Ilocos Region, and Cagayan Valley while a spike in infections was observed in Bicol Region, Zamboanga Peninsula, and Mimaropa.
