DOH: Positivity rate in Central Visayas is still high, pulled up by Cebu laboratories' swab test results

DOH: 14.15% Positivity Rate in Central Visayas on Wednesday, February 24, 2021

• 457 tested positive out ot 3,230 swab samples in the region
• The positivity rate in Cebu's molecular laboratories was 14.74% (450 out of 3,020 swab samples)
• Bohol laboratories' positivity rate was 2.00% (1 of 50)
• The positivity rate in Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital laboratory was 4.69% (6 of 128)
• World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries to keep positivity rate lower than 5% to ensure that community transmission is under control and that swab testing is adequate