Octa Research, the academe-based group that tracks the country’s coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases, said a modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) should be imposed if the “bubble” system in the National Capital Region (NCR) would fail to control the virus surge.

The group issued the statement as the Department of Health admitted that the rise in cases eclipsed that in 2020. It said the number of weekly cases surpassed the peak recorded in the first surge that was experienced from July to August last year.

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