Residents queue up to enter a market in Manila on March 28, 2021 (Photo by Jam STA ROSA / AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) Dr. David Guido, OCTA research fellow, said that his team is projecting the reproduction rate to reach 1.2 or even 1.1 or 1 by the end of the week. As of Monday, April 5, the reproduction rate in NCR is already at 1.53. “Pag ganon, medyo malapit na siya sa 1, baka pwede na kahit mag MECQ tayo, kaya natin mapababa ‘yun sa 1 within the following week (If that’s the case, if the reproduction number is near 1 it’s possible to shift to MECQ, since we can manage to bring it down to 1 within the following week),” Guido told DZMM in an interview on Tuesday (April 6).