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Department of Health Secretary Francisco Duque III (File photo) MANILA - Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said coronavirus cases in the National Capital Region (NCR) may have already reached their peak as the number of new infections in the area continue to decrease in the past few days. "Lumiliit ang porsiyentong iniaambag nito sa ating total case load (The percentage of new cases the NCR contributes to our total case load is getting smaller)," Duque said during a televised public briefing. On Sunday, the NCR logged 5,433 new cases, lower than Saturday's 6,646. It recorded 7,279 on January 21; 9,455 on January 20; and 8,376 on January 19. The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases will discuss on Thursday the alert levels raised in different parts of the country. Duque said they might talk about de-escalating the alert level in NCR from 3 to 2 following the task force's review of the metrics. "So, depende pa rin iyan kung