TWO days after logging a daily positivity rate (DPR) under five percent, Cebu City's DPR has risen by 3.46 percentage points since. The Cebu City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) reported a 7.10 percent positivity rate on Tuesday, February 22, 2022, showing an increasing pattern since the city logged 3.64 percent positivity rate last Sunday, February 20. The DPR on Monday, February 21, was 5.66 percent. However, the three-day positivity rate is still at a single-digit level. Before the DPR shoot to double digits in early January this year due to Omicron-driven surge, Cebu City had reported under five percent positivity rate from the first day of the year until January 4. The World Health Organization (WHO) said one of the coronavirus indicators that show the infections are under control is when the positivity rate is under five percent for two weeks. The positivity rate, or percent positive, is the percentage of all coronavirus tests performed that come out positive. Tuesday's
THE positivity rate in Cebu City has been a curious case in the past four days: it goes down to single digits in one day, then it goes up to double digits the next day. Cebu City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) reported a 7.84 percent positivity rate on Thursday, February 17, 2022, a decline from the 10.64 percent positivity rate posted on Wednesday, February 16. The EOC reported a sharp decline of the positivity rate -- 6.55 percent positivity rate -- on Tuesday, February 15, after logging 10.35 percent positivity rate on Monday, February 14. The week started with a single-digit positivity rate of 8.58 percent on Sunday, February 13. The World Health Organization said having a positivity rate of less than five percent for the last two weeks is one of the indicators that the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) infection is under control. Positivity rate is the percentage of people who test positive for the virus of those overall who have been tested. 'Declining pattern' Despite th