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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, September 6) – Coronavirus cases in the country have reached 237,365, as the Department of Health announced 2,839 new patients.
In its latest case bulletin issued Sunday, the DOH said that of the new cases, 81 percent or 2,302 were detected in the past 14 days.
Metro Manila continues to register the most recently infected residents with 1,170 cases. They are followed by Negros Occidental with 195, Laguna with 190, Cavite with 182 and Rizal with 154.
But another 23,074 patients have overcome the disease, the DOH said, and the national recovery count rose to 184,687. This means that 77 percent of the total infected nationwide have already recovered.
DOH attributed the huge increase in recoveries to its Oplan Recovery program, which uses a time- and symptom-based scheme to label patients as recovered.
With the exception of the immunosuppressed, COVID-19 patients are discharged from isolation facilities after a certain number of days in quarantine and after symptoms have disappeared after a doctor’s evaluation, even without the need for undergo a confirmatory RT-PCR test.
The DOH said in its latest report that 85 more patients have succumbed to the virus, bringing the death toll from COVID-19 in the country to 3,875. Among the recently reported deaths, 29 occurred in September, 33 in August and the other 23 in the months of March to July.
Sunday’s case report showed that active cases or currently sick patients are now at 48,803, which is 20 percent of the total case count.
The Department of Foreign Relations also said that another Filipino living abroad contracted the virus, bringing the total number of cases in this sector to 10,117. Meanwhile, COVID-19 recovery and death counts remain unchanged at 6,284 and 758 Filipinos abroad, respectively.
According to researchers from the University of the Philippines, the country has flattened the COVID-19 curve as they noted that the national reproduction rate of COVID-19, a statistic used to measure the rate of transmission of the virus, has decreased to a lower value. to one. They added that the positivity rate, or the percentage of people who test positive for the virus among all those who were tested, is also declining.
However, the researchers urged the public to continue to exercise strict caution. They warned that COVID-19 trends are subject to change and can be reversed at any time.
More than 26.9 million people worldwide have been infected with the coronavirus, according to a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University in the US. More than 17.9 million of this number have recovered, while nearly 880,000 Have they died.
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