Davao City’s positivity rate has dipped below 5 percent according to Dr. Michelle Schlosser, spokesperson of the Davao City Covid-19 Task Force.
“As of March 17, 2022 less than 5 percent po sa positivity rate ang atoang cases. For the past few weeks ang atoang positivity rate naa ra sa 1 to 2 percent. Ingon ana ka baba,” she said on Friday.
This means that the positivity rate, which refers to the percentage of all tests that came out positive, is now within the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) recommendation of five percent for opening economies.
“Within this period or surge we had katong naa ta’y Omicron variant, wala pa ta’y nagkaroon zero but previous na mga surges nagkaroon ta ug zero cases,” she said.
In terms of deaths, Schlosser said there are days that Davao City has zero deaths.
Schlosser assured that even if Davao City has zero Covid-19 cases they will not stop monitoring and counting daily Covid-19 cases.
“In Davao City, even mag zero case ta we continue to have a daily monitoring of our Covid cases. Wala ta nag stop ug count sa atoang daily covid cases. We still do that among our response cluster team as well atoang Covid TF,” she said.
Based on the Regional Situation Update on Covid-19 in Davao Region as of March 14, 2022 the Department of Health-Davao Region reported only 89 of 469 Covid-19 admissions of severe and critical cases. Of these, only 27 (5.76% of the total admissions) were confirmed cases, while 62 are probable and suspects.
There were 150 new cases recorded in the past week, which is 48 percent lower than cases reported from the week before.
There were only five deaths among the 46 newly verified deaths recorded in DOH 11’s database.
