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Manila, Philippines – The Department of Health (DOH) reports that the total number of cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is now 283,460 as of 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 19, 2020.
This, after 3,962 newly confirmed cases were added to the list.
DOH also announced 1,128 recoveries, bringing the total number of recoveries to 209,885.
The latest bulletin from the health department showed that of the 3,962 cases reported today, 3,286 (83%) occurred in the last 14 days (September 6 – September 19, 2020).
The main regions with cases in the last two weeks were NCR with 1,199 (36%), Region 4A with 780 (24%) and Region 3 with 446 (14%).
Of the 100 deaths, 66 occurred in September (66%), 16 in August (16%), 7 in July (7%), 4 in June (4%), and 7 in April (7%).
Twenty-seven (27) duplicates were removed from the total case count. Of these, 15 were recovered cases, the report added. Another patient who recovered was verified to be a foreign national and was also removed from the total case count.
On the other hand, 17 cases that were previously labeled as recovered were reclassified as deaths after final validation.
The department further reported that 10 labs were unable to submit their data to the COVID-19 Data Repository System (CDRS) on September 18, 2020. These labs are:
- Daniel O. Mercado Medical Center
- Dr. Jorge P. Royeca Hospital
- Kaiser Medical Center Inc.
- Lanao del Norte Covid-19 Testing Laboratory
- Las Piñas General Hospital and Satellite Trauma Center (GX)
- Las Piñas General Hospital and Trauma Satellite Center (RT-PCR)
- Tropical Medicine Research Institute
- Protect DNA diagnostics
- Molecular Laboratory of the City of Taguig
- Esperanza Valenzuela Molecular Laboratory
DOH said the numbers they receive undergo constant cleaning and validation. – / mbmf
