PH registers 1,910 new cases of COVID-19; 11 labs do not send results

MANILA – The Philippines’ coronavirus count increased by 1,910 to 346,536 on Wednesday, the second day in a row that additional confirmed daily infections were below 2,000.

Wednesday’s recently announced cases, of which 624 are from the National Capital Region (NCR), do not include the results of 11 testing labs that did not submit their data on time.

Most or 86% of new cases occurred in the past 2 weeks.

With the exception of October 12, October 4 and September 28, the Philippines has recorded fewer than 3,000 cases a day in the last 3 weeks, although there are some days when more than a dozen labs were unable to submit their data. .

The Health Department also reported 579 additional recovered patients and 78 new COVID-related deaths.

With a total of 293,860 recoveries and 6,449 deaths, the country’s active cases stood at 46,227.

Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said Wednesday morning that while NCR still has many cases, they are seeing the numbers stabilize and slowly decline.

“We could already decongest [our health system]”He said, referring to the lower occupancy rates of the hospitals.

The OCTA Research Group, made up of professors from the University of the Philippines and the University of Santo Tomas, estimates that COVID-19 cases in the Philippines will reach 380,000 to 410,000 by the end of October.

This week, the group recommended that stricter quarantine measures be applied in certain areas of the country with higher “attack rates,” or percentages of the population recently infected with COVID-19.