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The city of DAVAO registered the highest number of new cases of Covid-19 in the country in a single day with 99 new cases on Friday, October 23.
According to the national Covid-19 bulletin of the Department of Health (DOH) published on Friday, October 23 in the afternoon, the country registered a total of 1,923 new reported cases, in which the almost one hundred new cases of Covid-19 of the city Davao dominated the list of provinces, urbanized cities (HUC) and independent component cities (ICC).
The city is followed by Cavite and Manila with 94 new cases each, Quezon City with 92 new cases and Negros Occidental with 89 new cases.
Before topping the areas with new reported cases, Davao City appeared in third place on October 22, where the city recorded 76 new cases.
As of Thursday night, October 22, Davao remains the Covid-19 hotspot in the region with 716 active cases.
The city has a total of 2,926, of which 2,083 have already recovered and 127 have died.
DOH-Davao recently reported that the city’s Covid-19 growth rate is steadily increasing over the past two weeks.
According to DOH-Davao data as of Oct. 15, the city’s current two-week growth rate is 60.10 percent, compared to 43.60 percent in the past three to four weeks.
DOH-Davao Deputy Director Lenny Joy Rivera said on Friday, October 16 on the virtual press One Davao on Covid-19 that the two-week growth rate is a measure that shows how fast the number of cases is changing in the two weeks. period.
Meanwhile, the city’s average daily attack rate has risen from 1.2 to two percent.
This was the reason why the mayor of the city of Davao, Sara Duterte-Carpio, reimposed the curfew in the city, to regulate the movement of people that is attributed to the widespread transmission of the virus.
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