Omicron community transmission in Metro Manila confirmed – DOH

The capital region has been contributing the highest number of COVID-19 cases nationwide, but Vergeire said other regions are seeing an increase in their numbers as well.

At that time, new cases began to breach the 20,000 mark with 21,819 on Jan. 7, a steep rise from just 4,600 on Jan. 3, the start of that week.She said current active cases in the metropolis are at 149,000—a figure that she said may even double by February. She said: “We see the slowdown [in the growth of cases], but we need to understand that the number of cases still continue[s] to increase. It’s not just the slowing down of cases we look at, but the increase in the number of cases. We need to keep a close watch on this.”

But of the total active cases now at 280,813, the majority were mild infections at 267,185. Asymptomatic cases were at 8,928; moderate, 2,925; severe, 1,472; and critical, 303. Total COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began were at 3,168,379, of which there were 2,834,708 survivors with the addition of 23,613 recoveries.The positivity rate was at 47.1 percent—more than nine times the 5-percent threshold set by the World Health Organization—based on 78,774 tests conducted on Thursday.

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