{"id":227804,"date":"2022-10-13T10:56:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T02:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wonderful-indigo-elk.62-72-47-242.cpanel.site\/?p=227804"},"modified":"2022-10-13T11:55:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T03:55:37","slug":"national-capital-region-7-day-positivity-rate-dips-to-17-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/?p=227804","title":{"rendered":"National Capital Region 7-Day Positivity Rate Dips To 17.3%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The seven day Covid-19 positivity rate in the National Capital Region (NCR) further dropped to 17.3 percent as of Oct. 10 from 19 percent on Oct. 3, the OCTA Research Group said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Positivity rate refers to the number of individuals testing for Covid-19 in a certain period.<\/p>\n<p>OCTA Research Group fellow Dr. Guido David, over Twitter, said the reproduction number in the region &#8212; number of people a case could infect &#8212; is down to 0.93.<\/p>\n<p>NCR\u2019s one week growth rate is at -16 percent while its healthcare utilization rate is at 37 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us hope the downward trend continues the rest of the year,\u201d David said.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Department of Health said Covid-19 cases in the NCR show signs of plateauing while infections in the NCR Plus Areas remain on an upward trend.<\/p>\n<p>Severe and critical cases in the NCR continue to show a downward trend together with the intensive care unit admissions. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seven-day Covid-19 positivity rate in the National Capital Region has dropped to 17.3 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/227803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}