Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, June 12) — Five provinces are facing high health care utilization rate because of rising coronavirus cases, the OCTA Research Group said Saturday.
In its latest report, covering June 5 to 11 data, the group cited Iloilo, Cagayan, Misamis Oriental, Negros Oriental, and Agusan del Norte with an over 70% health care utilization rate.
Cagayan was almost at critical level with an 84% health care utilization rate.
Negros Oriental and Agusan del Norte, it noted, witnessed a significant rise at 62% and 35%, respectively, in new COVID-19 cases.
OCTA also sounded the alarm on seven other local government units—Cagayan de Oro City, Iloilo City, Butuan, Dumaguete, Tuguegarao, Tacloban, and Cotabato City—as their bed occupancy rate was over 70%.
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Meanwhile, the same report showed that the country’s average number of new cases fell by 3% to 6,430. The reproduction number also stood at 1.02.
