Five provinces face high-risk hospital status amid COVID spike – OCTA Research
CNN Philippines – Five provinces are facing high health care utilization rate because of rising coronavirus cases, the OCTA Research Group said Saturday.
In its latest report, covering June 5 to 11 data, the group cited Iloilo, Cagayan, Misamis Oriental, Negros Oriental, and Agusan del Norte with an over 70 percent health care utilization rate.
Cagayan was almost at critical level with an 84 percent health care utilization rate.
Negros Oriental and Agusan del Norte, it noted, witnessed a significant rise at 62 percent and 35 percent, respectively, in new COVID-19 cases.
OCTA also sounded the alarm on seven other local government units—Cagayan de Oro City, Iloilo City, Butuan, Dumaguete, Tuguegarao, Tacloban, and Cotabato City—as their bed occupancy rate was over 70 percent.
Meanwhile, the same report showed that the country’s average number of new cases fell by 3 percent to 6,430. The reproduction number also stood at 1.02.
