Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 2) — The country is now at moderate risk for COVID-19 given negative infection growth rates, a Health official said on Wednesday, even as health care capacity is at low risk.
“The Philippines is now at moderate-risk case classification, dati nasa high at critical risk tayo, pero ngayon moderate na lang [we were at high risk and critical risk before but now we are at moderate risk],” said Vergeire in a media forum. “We showed a negative one-week and two-week growth rate.”
She said the average daily attack rate – or the ratio of confirmed infections in a certain area per number of population – is still high, but is now at 19.43 per 100,000 people
Meanwhile, Vergeire said the health care capacity for intensive care units and bed utilization is at low risk.
“So tayo ay talagang nagmomove na towards nitong decline na ‘to so tuloy-tuloy po tayo,” added Vergeire.
[Translation: So we are really moving towards a decline, so let’s continue this downtrend.]
The news comes a few days after the government downgraded restrictions in Metro Manila and seven provinces to Alert Level 2.
This story will be updated.
