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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, September 4) – The country’s COVID-19 case count surpassed 232,000 on Friday with 3,714 new infections recorded, the Health Department announced.
The department said total cases nationwide reached 232,072 with 67,786 active or currently ill patients. Metro Manila had the highest number of infected residents with 1,797, followed by Negros Occidental with 390, Batangas with 248, Laguna with 247 and Cavite with 150 new cases. The DOH said 3,259 or 88 percent of new cases were detected in the past 14 days.
Of the active cases, about 90.7 percent have mild symptoms, 6.9 percent have no symptoms, 1.4 percent are in critical condition and 0.9 percent are severe cases, according to the bulletin. agency cases.
The DOH also reported 1,088 new recoveries, bringing the total number of patients who improved to 160,549. This is the highest number of new recoveries reported in one day since August 26 that were not included in the department’s “Oplan Recovery”. The program registers thousands of new survivors, even reaching more than 20,000, every Sunday.
Meanwhile, another 49 succumbed to the disease, bringing the death toll to 3,737, the agency said.
Of the newly listed deaths, two died in May, three in June, four in July, 35 in August and five in September, the case file showed. The department also said 40 duplicates were removed from the total count, including 12 recoveries. Five cases were also deducted after validation, of which two were wrongly reported as survivors, the department said.
The DOH said the new cases come from reports from 93 of 113 COVID-19 labs in the country.
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