DOH: No artificial increase, COVID-19 cases still rising despite decrease in backlogs

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The Department of Health says it is now getting a clearer picture of how many people have COVID-19 as more test kits and laboratories are available for diagnosis

ng ating laboratoryo, mas marami tayong nate-test, mas nakikita na po natin ngayon ang mga positibong kaso.pa rin hanggang sa ngayon. Ang ibig sabihin nito nakikita na po natin yung positibo sa ating[Translation: We see now that backlogs are going down, but cases are still going up. It means that because we have extended the capacity of laboratories, we are able to do more tests, we can now see clearly the positive cases. So we can't call this artificial.

[Translation: This is not yet the peak because we can see those who are positive, we are tracing those have come in contact with the positive, and we can see that there are more persons under monitoring.]

 

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I'm curious if the increasing number of cases is because it's still spreading? Or because we now have more test kits?

Weeh! The picture is already clearer with just 2000+ people tested?

For sure

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