The COVID-19 curve for virus epicenter Metro Manila has flattened, but UP math professor Guido David warns: “We can’t be complacent yet. We can’t relax.”
'We can't be complacent'
David then warned that the lowering of the reproduction number is"not irreversible," that is, it could still go up again. "We can't be complacent yet. We can't relax...It will take us a while to reduce the number of cases to maybe 500 cases per day."Bacolod City and Tacloban City were reverted to GCQ, while Iligan City was placed back under the stricter MECQ. The rest of the country is under a modified GCQ or MGCQ, the most relaxed lockdown level.
He added,"Yes, we're decreasing, we have two weeks of decline, but the number of cases is still high. We're still getting 2,000 cases in Metro Manila alone. And the moment we have a surge, that will be another problem again for our critical care [facilities]."
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