The Municipality of Pateros, the smallest local government unit in Metro Manila, has 17 active Covid-19 cases.
Data from the Department of Health’s Covid-19 Tracker showed that Pateros added one new Covid-19 case on June 29 to bring the total active cases to 17, an increase of one case from 16 on June 28.
As of June 29, Pateros has 10,265 total confirmed cases, 10,163 recoveries and 85 deaths since 2020.
From June 23 to 29, the municipality added eight new cases from nine cases tallied on June 16 to 22, and four from June 9 to 15.
The DOH recently tagged Pateros as one of the five LGUs in Metro Manila with moderate risk level after its cases grew by more than 200 percent. The other four were Pasig, San Juan, Quezon and Marikina.
“Kaya po sila napunta sa moderate risk classification dahil nag-umpisa po tayo sa mga mabababang kaso nung mga past weeks tapos biglang nagkaroon sila ng kaso that’s why their They had more than 200 percent),” said Health Usec. Maria Rosario Vergeire during a public growth rate began to increase. Nagkaroon ng more than 200 percent (The reason why they went to a moderate risk classification is because we started from a low number of cases in the past weeks and then suddenly they had cases that’s why their growth rate began to increase. briefing on PTV 4 on June 25.
The Pateros municipal government last reported its Covid-19 case update on June 21, revealing that it added six new Covid-19 cases to bring the total active cases to 14.
The DOH and local government units have different data on Covid-19 numbers.