The National Inter-Agency Task Force announced on Wednesday the the seven provinces and two highly-urbanized cities in the region under the lowest alert level yet until the end of the month.
According to the June 15 bulletin of the Department of Health, there were 275 active Covid-19 cases in the region, 23 of which were added on that day alone.
On June 12, the region logged only 2.6 percent positivity rate, meaning only 1,320 out of 50,796 individuals who were tested had a Covid-19 positive result.