Health Secretary Francisco Duque III claimed again Wednesday, July 15, 2020 that the country has successfully flattened the curve of the COVID-19 pandemic since last other month of April. But the claims of Duque contradict of today’s more cases of the coronavirus have been recorded and that even hospitals reported full occupancy of their wards for COVID-19 related cases.

According to Duque, the conclusion was based on the longer COVID-19 case doubling rate and mortality doubling time.

“We have successfully flattened the curve since April,” he said during a virtual presser with reporters.

Duque cited the government improvement pandemic response in terms of public health interventions and non-pharmaceutical interventions which he was referring to the mandatory wearing of face masks of the netizens.

During the crisis, Luzon was placed by the government under a strict lockdown since in the mid of March to May considering that Luzon is the home of half of the country’s population of about a hundred million people.

Last month people feel the ease from the hard lock down all over the country.

“While we have flattened the curve, I have earlier indicated that this was able to provide us a window of opportunity to improve and increase, one-up our health system’s capacity,” Duque added.

However, the data

However, the graph that records COVID-19 cases from the ABS-CBN Data Analytics team shows that the country records downward trend in terms of new cases of COVID-19 disease based on the report from the Department of Health daily record.

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