The death toll from COVID-19 in the Philippines exceeds 4,000 and the total infections rise to 248,947

MANILA – The death toll from coronavirus in the Philippines surpassed 4,000 on Thursday, as the number of cases of the disease in the country rose from 3,821 to 248,947, the health department said.

Of the additional cases, which are based on the results of 105 of the 117 accredited testing laboratories, more than half or 2,079 are from the National Capital Region, the epicenter of the outbreak in the country.

This is the third day in a row that additional cases have exceeded 3,000. This as DOH warned that additional cases would be erratically high this week as labs try to catch up on their delayed reports.

With 563 additional recovered patients and 80 new COVID-related deaths, there are currently 58,823 active cases in the country.

The total number of recoveries is 186,058, while the total number of deaths increased to 4,066.

The 12 labs that are unable to submit their data to the COVID-19 Data Repository System (CDRS) are:

1. Amosup Sailors Hospital
2. Butuan Medical Center
3. Calamba Medical Center
4. Cebu TB Reference Laboratory
5. Dagupan Doctors Villaflor Memorial Hospital
6. Dr. Rafael S. Tumbokon Memorial Hospital
7. Green City Medical Center
8. Ilocos Regional Medical Training Center (GX)
9. Maria Reyna Xavier University Hospital
10. NKTI GX
11. Philippine Genome Center
12. Qualimed Hospital – San José del Monte

Before this week, the Philippines has been seeing an apparent decline in COVID-19 cases, with daily counts as low as 1,000 to 2,000. Additional cases per day have averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 in the previous month.

Experts from the OCTA Research Group at the University of the Philippines estimate that the total number of cases would reach 310,000 to 330,000 by the end of September.