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On Sunday, December 20, 2020, the Department of Health (DOH) reported 1,754 new coronavirus infections, bringing the total case count closer to 460,000.
These also brought the total number of new cases in the last seven days from December 14 to 20 to 10,389, about 8.6 percent more than the 9,566 new cases reported in the previous week of December 7 to 13.
New infections averaged P1,454 per day from Dec. 14 to 20 compared to 1,366 per day from Dec. 7 to 13, DOH case bulletins showed.
For the fourth day in a row, Quezon City had the highest number of new cases, followed by Rizal province.
Quezon City had a total of 526 new cases from December 17-20, while Rizal had 375 new infections during the same period.
On Sunday alone, Quezón City had 163 new cases, followed by Rizal with 104. Other areas with a high number of new cases on Sunday were Benguet (83), Laguna (83) and Bulacan (61).
As of Sunday, the total number of coronavirus cases in the country rose to 459,789.
The DOH case report also listed an additional 36 deaths, bringing the death toll from the 2019 coronavirus disease (Covid-19) to 8,947. The fatality rate remained at 1.95 percent.
There were 8,080 massive recoveries on Sunday under DOH’s time-based recovery strategy, reducing the number of active cases to 21,708 or 4.7 percent of the total case count.
Under this methodology, people infected with mild or no symptoms of Covid-19 are declared recovered if they do not experience any symptoms in more than 14 consecutive days.
Sunday’s 8,080 recoveries were roughly 13 percent lower than the 9,269 recoveries on Dec. 13.
DOH’s status report as of December 18 showed that the top three regions in terms of active and new cases were the National Capital Region, Calabarzon, and Central Luzon.
The Davao region had the fourth highest number of active cases and the sixth highest number of new cases. The central Visayas region ranked 10th in terms of both active and new cases.
The Philippines remained in 28th place among the countries with the highest number of cases according to the tracker of the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
The tracker also showed that more than 76.3 million people have been infected worldwide and approximately 1.68 million had died from Covid-19 as of December 20, 2020. (Marites Villamor-Ilano / SunStar Philippines)
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