Quezon City’s COVID-19 situation has continued to improve with its positivity rate at 5 percent, the ideal rate according to the World Health Organization, Mayor Joy Belmonte said on Thursday.
“This is good news for us. We were at 5 percent a week before the surge happened last February and March. This means that our cases and transmissions are well-monitored and controlled. We hope that this positivity rate shall continue to dip down in the coming weeks,” she said.
Belmonte said they are now preparing a Delta-variant response plan in the event the new variant reaches the city.
Citing the OCTA Research Group, the city government said its positivity rate, previously at 6 percent since the week of June 22-28, has now reached the standard rate and is even better compared to the National Capital Region rate of 6 percent.
OCTA also reported the average number of cases per day in the city has decreased to 123 from 141 cases last week.
The reproduction number is at .86, while the average daily attack rate per 100,000 is 3.91.
Dr. Guido David, OCTA Research fellow, cited cases in which Quezon City remained in a steady trend together with the other cities in Metro Manila.
“We are not seeing an alarming trend but a generally flat trend in NCR. Quezon City is, in fact, one of the local government units with incidence lower than five per day,” he said.
The city remains vigilant through its rampant testing and aggressive contact tracing, Belmonte said.
For the week of July 4-10, the city conducted 4,181 PCR tests per day, while the contact tracing rate or the number of contacts traced per positive is now at 28.3.
Belmonte said the Department of Health has recognized Quezon City as one of the cities with the best contact tracing efforts.
“We are proud to share this because it has been a continuous effortsince day 1. Our army of contact tracers are doing their best to helpidentify possible infection and this helps in the mitigation becauseeventually, we will be able to test and isolate them,” she added.