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MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health (DOH) reported 2,103 additional coronavirus infections and 80 more deaths on Sunday, bringing the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases to 525,618 and the death toll to 10,749.
The latest deaths, including five people who were previously labeled as recovered, brought the fatality rate (the proportion of deaths among confirmed cases) to 2.05 percent, the highest since Aug. 1.
Active cases
In its latest weekly mass recovery, the DOH declared 11,653 infected people with mild or no symptoms recovered who had completed a 14-day quarantine, bringing the total number of Covid-19 survivors to 487,551.
The latest deaths and recoveries left the country with 27,318 active cases, of which 87.7 percent were mild, 5.5 percent asymptomatic, 0.6 percent moderate, 2.8 percent severe, and 3.3 percent. critics.
The DOH said 1,609 people tested positive for the virus out of 26,595 who were tested on Dec. 30, yielding a positivity rate of 6.1 percent.
Ten labs were unable to submit their data to DOH.
DOH did not list the five cities and provinces that registered the most cases in its bulletin Sunday.
After the city of Baguio pointed out a discrepancy in daily reported cases, DOH admitted that the data in its daily bulletin was two days old.
Meanwhile, the country’s confirmed cases of the new COVID-19 variant first reported in the UK remain at 17.
Citing the worldwide shortage of sequencing reagents, the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) was able to sequence only 48 samples for the fourth sequencing batch and none of them were positive for the more contagious B.1.1.7 variant.
According to DOH, the PGC will sequence another 48 samples this week, including samples taken from the Cordillera Administrative Region and target areas, while it awaits kits and reagents for genomic sequencing.
“While no new cases have been detected, minimum public health standards remain the best precaution against Coid-19 regardless of variant,” DOH said. INQ
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