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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, November 10) – Nearly 400,000 people in the Philippines have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the nine months since the country confirmed its first case of the highly contagious disease.
The Health Department said Tuesday that the national case count had reached 399,749, after it reported 1,347 new patients.
Of this total, 30,169, or 7.5 percent, are active cases or currently ill patients.
The case report showed that Cavite recorded the largest increase with 92 new infections. It is followed by the city of Manila with 77, the city of Quezon with 58, the city of Baguio with 55 and the province of Laguna with 52.
Another 187 patients also recovered, with the number of survivors now at 361,919, the DOH said. However, fourteen more deaths brought the death toll from COVID-19 in the country to 7,661.
DOH noted that eight testing labs did not submit their data on time and it was not yet included in the last count.
It added that 47 duplicates were removed from the overall count as part of its data cleansing process, including 43 recoveries. Nine cases mistakenly reported as recoveries were also relabelled as deaths after final validation.
According to the department’s tracker, about 4.7 million people across the country have been tested for COVID-19. The national positivity rate, or the percentage of infected of all those tested, is 9.5 percent.
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