Epidemiological profile and transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in the Philippines

• Main Authors: Haw, Nel Jason L, Uy, Jhanna, Sy, Karla Therese L, Abrigo, M.R.M
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: COVID-19; Epidemiology; transmission dynamics; Diseases; Medicine and Health Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/hs-faculty-pubs/4; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=hs-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The Philippines confirmed local transmission of COVID-19 on 7 March 2020. We described the characteristics and epidemiological time-to-event distributions for laboratory-confirmed cases in the Philippines recorded up to 29 April 2020 and followed until 22 May 2020. The median age of 8212 cases was 4...