I heard news about Metro Manila mayors being unanimous about making a recommendation to shift from MECQ to GCQ by June 1. I heard about that yesterday at around the same time I found out about the number of new cases being at 350 for May 26. I checked the DOH “infographic” and it didn’t come with the percentage of how many from those were from NCR.
I checked the website for the data — https://www.doh.gov.ph/covid19tracker but the info provided wasn’t real-time. So I checked it today and the May 26 data is already there (but then they’ve also just announced the May 27 data of 380 new cases).
Filtering only those cases from NCR, I got the following graph. And apparently, there were 247 new cases from NCR yesterday (70% of the 350).
The last time we had less than 50 cases was last March 26. Last time we came close to 50 cases (51) was last May 2.
Dismay, I meant, this May 1–25, we pretty much were at an average of 137.32 new cases per day, with lowest at 51 and highest at 195. Then May 26 came and now we zoomed up to 247.
There’s no dwindling down of new cases, but somehow, they agreed on recommending we lift the current quarantine from MECQ to GCQ by June 1. They probably (or they really should) have more information at hand to have arrived at that recommendation. It’s still the IATF’s call whether we do shift to GCQ or not. But I hope they come to a decision which will make sense, and that they take into account risks that they can actually mitigate in case they materialize.
