All regions in the country are now at minimal to low risk case classification for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as cases continue to dip in recent weeks, the Department of Health said on Monday, Nov. 22.

DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire reported all regions have negative two week growth rates and average daily attack rates of less than seven per 100,000 population.

She added that the country's epidemic curve showed that the current average daily cases have further decreased by 550 cases, or 28 percent this week which is from Nov. 15 to Nov. 21.

"We have the average daily reported cases in the country at 1,436," she said.

"Nationally, we remain a low risk case classification with a negative two week growth rate at negative 49 percent and moderate risk average daily attack rate of 1.55 cases for every 100,000 individuals. The National Health Systems capacity is at low risk," she added.

Meanwhile, Vergeire said that the majority of the regions' total COVID-19 bed and ICU utilization are at low risk while Region IX's ICU utilization is at moderate risk at 54 percent utilization.

Situation in the NCR

Vergeire mentioned that the NCR is currently at low risk case classification with a negative two week growth rate and an average daily attack rate of 2.69 per 100,000 individuals which she said was up from 1.48. On the other hand, both the total bed and ICU are at low risk.

In the NCR plus areas, the majority show signs of plateauing except for the rest of Luzon but nonetheless is still in a downward trend, albeit slowing down its decrease.

She mentioned that Region II showed a positive two week growth rate in the recent week. Daily cases in NCR in the recent week have plateaued with its seven day moving average, showing a slight decrease of 120 or 28 percent cases in the recent week. For NCR, the average daily reported cases in this recent week is 315.