PH registers 1,791 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 416,852

MANILA – The Department of Health (DOH) announced 1,791 new cases of COVID-19 in the country on Saturday, bringing the total cases to 416,852 as the Philippines was reeling from recent catastrophic typhoons that left thousands of people in evacuation centers. .

This is the twelfth consecutive day that the daily count counted less than 2,000, but does not include data from 3 labs that did not report on time.

Of the additional cases, 211 are from Tarlac, 115 from Davao city, 74 from Laguna, 69 from Cavite, and 65 from Negros Occidental.

The number of recovered patients increased to 375,548 as the DOH recorded 328 more recoveries. Total recoveries represent 90.1 percent of all registered cases.

The department also recorded an additional 55 deaths, bringing the death toll from the highly contagious disease to 8,080.

About 8 percent or 33,224 of the total number of cases are considered active infections. The DOH said 93.2 percent of currently ill patients are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms.

Of the 25,430 people who were tested as of noon Friday, 1,398, or 5.5 percent, tested positive for the disease, the health department said.

A total of 6 duplicates were removed from the total count, according to the health department. Of these, 4 were labeled as recovered cases.

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Thirteen cases initially labeled as recoveries were found to be deaths after validation.

Earlier this week, DOH said it was closely monitoring the city of Davao due to the continued rise in COVID-19 cases. President Rodrigo Duterte’s hometown was recently placed under general community quarantine.

Other parts of the country have shown an improvement in numbers, according to the DOH, which noted the decline in the average number of cases and the number of COVID-19 clusters in some areas.

More than 57.5 million people around the world 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 highest total cases.

Since the pandemic began, more than 1.3 million have died, while nearly 37 million have recovered from the disease.