THE Department of Health on Friday, June 18, 2021, reported nearly 7,000 new cases of coronavirus disease 2019 , which pushed the number of active cases to a new high in more than a month.
The DOH case bulletin also listed 110 additional mortalities, including 60 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries but were found to have died from the disease. The daily positivity rate sent up to 12.6 percent on June 16, with testing output declining slightly to 43,635 from the previous day.
Octa said Davao City posted a one-week growth rate of 26 percent to 232 cases from 184 , a reproduction number of 1.47, and a one-week positivity rate of 14 percent out of an average of 3,000 tests per day.
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