OCTA: Metro Manila positivity rate suddenly going up again

People queue outside SM City Sta. Mesa in Quezon City to register for the upcoming December 2022 barangay elections despite the light rainfall on Thursday, July 21, 2022.

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MANILA, Philippines — After first projecting a peak in the surge of cases within the next week, independent pandemic monitor OCTA Research sounded the alarm Friday over the sudden uptick in positive cases in recent days. 

In an advisory, OCTA Research fellow Dr. Guido David said that the positivity rate — which refers to the percentage of cases coming out positive — was suddenly on the uptrend again after going down for a number of days in a row. 

Per the Department of Health's latest update, Metro Manila made up 1,002 of the 2,828 new cases recorded nationwide on Thursday. Quezon City, Makati, and Manila were responsible for 215, 117, and 112 of those cases, respectively, while no other local government unit breached 100 cases. 

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