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Quezon City and the cities of Manila, Pasig and Makati have just registered the highest number of recently reported cases
BENJAMIN CO, MD | 13 dec 2020
All data provided comes from various information sites of the Department of Health, including data delivery. Where appropriate, appropriate reference will be made to other graphics, illustrations, tables, and data.
December 13, 2020 (updated)
The Health Department announces a total of 1,085 new cases today, with four cities in the National Capital Region (Mega Manila) contributing the largest numbers. These four, Quezon City, Makati, City of Manila, and Pasig, are responsible for 21.2 percent of all cases in the Philippines today.
The health department also publishes three new deaths.
Yesterday’s data breakdown
THE PHILIPPINES
- With 1,301 new cases yesterday, Mega Manila was responsible for about 30 percent of yesterday’s loot.
- Quezon City, Makati, Manila, Pasig, Mandaluyong, Parañaque, Muntinlupa, Las Piñas, Pasay City, Taguig City, and Caloocan City landed on the top twenty cities / towns of the day list.
- The good news? San Juan and Pateros reported ZERO cases of coronavirus yesterday.
- Apart from NCR, four other regions reported three digits: CALABARZON, Davao Region, Eastern Visayas, and Cordillera Administrative Region.
- Davao del Norte and Davao del Sur, both provinces in the Davao region were among the top 10 provinces yesterday.
- Four provinces in the CALABARZON area were in the top ten: Laguna, Rizal, Quezon, and Cavite.
- Eleven of the 17 cities in Mega Manila were among the top 20 cities / municipalities with the most cases, with Quezon City leading the way.
- The City of Panabo in Davao del Norte led among cities outside the National Capital Region.
THE WORLD
Overnight, the world crossed the 72,000,000 mark. There are also now more than 1,600,000 deaths from COVID-19.
The weekend data is usually much lower, but this weekend is different. The United States continues to lead globally in both new cases and new deaths, reporting more than 200,000 new cases and more than 2,000 deaths per day.
Now there are 15 countries with more than 1,000,000 cases each. Peru will most likely be the 16th in the next few days.
- Global fatality rate: 2.23 percent.
- Six European countries were among the top ten contributors to the pool of new cases yesterday: Turkey, Germany, the UK, Italy, France and Ukraine.
Editorial
The week in review
- While there is a slight decrease in the growth rate for the average 7-day cases, there is an increase in cases in the pediatric and geriatric age group, as the government begins to relax the conditions on who can or cannot traveling outside of their homes.
- As of December 7, the Rt was more than 1.0. This may influence the evolution of cases in the coming weeks.
- Below is a summary of how the Philippines has been doing since the beginning of the pandemic.
- There has been no significant decrease in cases in the last month. We need to work to bring the number of cases to triple digits and this has been a Herculean task for the government as each different agency tries to balance the economy with health. 2 While average deaths are slightly lower, they still do not reflect true conditions for the overall COVID-19 death rate.
- While average deaths are slightly lower, they still do not reflect the true conditions of the overall death rate due to COVID-19.
- While about 20,000 to 30,000 people are being re-tested daily, the positive daily rate is now in the light orange zone or between 3 and 5 percent. This is an ideal percentage. Bringing it lower to the blue zone (2-3 percent) is the goal. At the current rate of 1,000 people testing each day, only 30 to 50 people will test positive.
Among the selected Asian countries that are experiencing an increase in cases in the region, the Philippines is the only one experiencing a slight and slow decline in the number of cases per million population (per capita).
