NCR Covid-19 cases remain on an uptrend; positivity rate at 13%
MANILA - The number of coronavirus cases in the National Capital Region (NCR) remains on an uptrend, showing a steep increase in recent weeks. In its Covid-19 situationer released Thursday night, the Department of Health said the NCR's weekly positivity rate or the percentage of those people tested who are actually infected with the virus, is 13 percent as of July 14. The region's seven-day moving average in the current week (July 8 to 14) is 748 cases - higher by 29 percent from the previous week's (July 1 to 7) 582. For the entire country, the weekly positivity rate is 10.6 perce...