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The DOH is closely monitoring 6 emerging coronavirus hot spots in the Philippines - Cebu City, Ormoc City, and the provinces of Cebu, Southern Leyte, Leyte and Samar - which have reported a combined 5,305 cases. These areas are seeing faster increases in cases compared to others. The national government has provided these areas assistance to increase testing capacity and require strict public health measures. While new cases continue to rise with reopening, the daily increase has remained gradual and the health system is able to cope. Reported deaths from COVID-19 have also been declining.

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The DOH is closely monitoring 6 emerging coronavirus hot spots in the Philippines - Cebu City, Ormoc City, and the provinces of Cebu, Southern Leyte, Leyte and Samar - which have reported a combined 5,305 cases. These areas are seeing faster increases in cases compared to others. The national government has provided these areas assistance to increase testing capacity and require strict public health measures. While new cases continue to rise with reopening, the daily increase has remained gradual and the health system is able to cope. Reported deaths from COVID-19 have also been declining.

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MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday

said it was closely watching six emerging coronavirus hot spots in the
country to ensure that the local health systems there would not be
overwhelmed.

The emerging hot spots are Cebu City, Ormoc City, and the provinces of
Cebu, Southern Leyte, Leyte and Samar, which had accounted for a
combined 5,305 cases as of Tuesday.

“There are not that many cases yet in these areas but we are seeing that
their rate of increase is faster compared to other areas,” Health
Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said in an online press briefing
on Wednesday.

Suppressing viral spread


“This is why the national government provided assistance to immediately
suppress the spread of the virus. We sent in equipment to ramp up the
testing capacity of Cebu province and required the strict implementation
of the public health standards with the help of the local governments in
these emerging hot spots,” she added. (See related story in Regions, Page
A8.)

On Wednesday, the DOH recorded 470 additional cases, bringing the


nationwide total to 32,295. Of these cases, 357 were patients who tested
positive for the new coronavirus in the last three days. Metro Manila had
the most number of these cases, 159, followed by Central Visayas, which
had 141.

The remainder of the additional infections, 113, were late cases or


patients who tested positive for the virus four days ago or earlier. Metro
Manila also topped this list with 66 of the cases.

The DOH reported that 214 more patients had recovered, pushing to 8,656
the total number of survivors of COVID-19, the severe respiratory illness
caused by the new coronavirus.
The death toll, however, increased to 1,204, as 18 more patients died. Of
the newly reported deaths, 14 died between June 4 and 17.

Vergeire said a continued increase in the number of new cases was


expected with the reopening of the economy, the loosening of quarantine
restrictions, and the increasing capacity to test for the coronavirus.

Even with the rise in the national caseload, she noted that the daily
number of cases have already “stabilized” and that the increase remained
to be “gradual.”

“This means that our current health system is able to cope with the rise in
the number of cases,” she said.

Also, Vergeire noted a huge chance of recovery for patients since barely 1
percent were severely ill or in critical condition. Of the 22,197 active cases
on Tuesday, 102 were severely ill while 23 were intubated. The bulk of
the cases, 21,362, exhibited mild symptoms, while 710 were
asymptomatic.

Deaths declining
Vergeire said it was also clear the management of COVID-19 cases had
improved, as the number of reported deaths continued to decline.

“This is an encouraging sign for us. Even as cases increase in various


parts of the country, our health system is able to manage and only a few
die from COVID-19,” she said.

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