MASS TESTING Residents of Bontoc, Mountain Province, undergo the government’s free mass swab testing on Jan. 28 at the provincial plaza following the surge of COVID-19 infections that included the more contagious UK variant. —PHOTO FROM BONDOC FACEBOOK PAGE
MANILA, Philippines — The daily cases of COVID-19 in the Philippines may burgeon to 10,000 to 11,000 by the end of March, a member of the OCTA Research group warned Tuesday. In an interview over the ABS-CBN News Channel, Dr. Guido David of the OCTA Research group shared his observation that there is an upward trend of COVID-19 cases, as the reproduction number is now at 2.03.The reproduction number or R-naught is the transmission rate of a disease, where the number equals how many people a patient can infect, where an R-naught of one means each patient can infect another potential patient.
“It is now above two, and what that means is that we have to recalculate to get the trends,” he said.
khallareINQ Then we will all have immunity
khallareINQ Burgeon? That’s a poor word choice.