Fresh COVID-19 Cases Indicative Of Declaration Of Curve Says Special Adviser
FRESH COVID-19 CASES – Recently, the Department of Health (DOH) released a new system of reporting COVID-19 cases.
In the previous days, the DOH has caused confusion among the masses due to the new system that separates “fresh cases” and “late cases”. According to the DOH, the increase in the number of confirmed cases was backlogged previously unreported.
As such, Ted Herbosa, the Philippines’ special adviser on the coronavirus said the country now has “some control” in the virus’ transmission. According to an article from ABS-CBN, Herbosa stated:
We really are in the deceleration of the curve, but I don’t know if we are just plateauing because the other number we look at is the time-varying reproductive number. I think that’s hovering around 1. We want that number to be really low
Moreover, he emphasized that the country’s “fresh” cases are “really going down”. Along with this, he explained that the confusion was merely due to the dumping of the backlogs.
He added that there was a day where there were only 5 fresh cases confirmed a day.
Fresh cases are really going down. The cases have gone down to a single digit. In fact, there was a day there were only 5 new confirmed cases a day. At least with the removal of what we call late cases that the trend had been continuing. It was only the dumping of the backlog that caused confusion.
Meanwhile, according to medical experts, the fact that hundreds of cases were reported late should not make us feel safer but alarm us even more. Furthermore, rising in cases caused by increased testing is different from “rise in detection of cases due to testing”.
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