PH COVID-19 cases surpass 406,000 after 1,650 more infections were confirmed

MANILA – The health department reported an additional 1,650 COVID-19 cases on Saturday, bringing the country’s total to 406,337, as the nation grappled with successive storms that increased the risk of infections at evacuation centers.

This is the fifth day in a row that the country’s daily count was below 2,000, but it does not include data from 9 labs that were not delivered on time, the latest DOH bulletin showed.

The province of Laguna led the areas of the country that registered the highest daily additional cases with 84, followed by the city of Davao with 81, Cavite with 73, Quezón with 71 and Rizal with 64 confirmed infections.

For the sixth day in a row, Cavite was included among the areas of the country with a high number of additional infections.

The number of recovered patients also rose to 363,068 as the DOH recorded 194 more recoveries on Saturday. The total number of recoveries represents 89.4 of the total registered cases.

The department also recorded an additional 39 deaths, bringing the death toll from the highly contagious disease to 7,791.

About 8.7 percent, representing 35,478 patients of the total number of cases, are considered active infections. The DOH said 93.5 percent of currently ill patients are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms.

Of the 19,531 people who were tested as of noon Friday, 1,182, or 6.1 percent, tested positive for the disease, the health department said.

A total of 26 duplicates were removed from the total count, according to the health department. Of these, 13 were labeled as recovered cases.

Meanwhile, 16 cases initially labeled as recoveries were found to be deaths after validation.

According to the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus control panel, nearly 53 million people have been infected by the COVID-19 virus worldwide since the start of the pandemic. Almost 1.3 million have died and more than 34 million have recovered.

More than 53.3 million worldwide have contracted COVID-19, according to a tally by the US-based Johns Hopkins University, where the US, India, Brazil, France and Russia have the most total cases. high.

Since the pandemic began, more than 1.3 million have died, while more than 34.4 million have recovered from the disease.