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Manila COVID-19 outbreak 'plateaus': mayor

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MANILA — The coronavirus spread in the Philippine capital has reached a &quot;plateau&quot;, Mayor Isko Moreno said Friday, nearly a month into the relaxed pandemic lockdown of Metro Manila. &quot;For the past 3 weeks starting GCQ (general community quarantine), nag-plateau po ang COVID presence sa Maynila. Hindi siya lumalaki, hindi siya bumababa — nami-maintain ang numbers,&quot; Moreno said. (For the past 3 weeks starting GCQ, the COVID presence in Manila plateaued. It&#x27;s has not gotten bigger, it did not go down either. The numbers were just maintained.) &quot;Pero sana &#x27;wag ma-relax iyong mga taga-Maynilang nakikinig,&quot; he told ABS-CBN&#x27;s TeleRadyo. (However, I hope that Manila residents listening will not relax.) Manila as of Thursday has the third highest COVID-19 tally in the country at 2,073 cases, next to Cebu City and Metro Manila. Out of this figure, 287 were &quot;new cases&quot; which meant the onset of illness or the patient&#x27;s specimen was collected in the 14 days, according to the health department&#x27;s website. Manila, which previously required the help of private hospitals to screen potential COVID-19 patients, <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/video/news/06/26/20/manila-coronavirus-testing-lab-opens-isko">opened Thursday its own testing laboratory</a> at the Sta. Ana Hospital, said Moreno. <div>TeleRadyo, June 26, 2020 </div>

The coronavirus spread in the Philippine capital has reached a "plateau", Mayor Isko Moreno said Friday, nearly a month into the relaxed pandemic lockdown of Metro Manila.

The coronavirus spread in the Philippine capital has reached a "plateau", Mayor Isko Moreno said Friday, nearly a month into the relaxed pandemic lockdown of Metro Manila.