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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, September 25) – The country now has more than 300,000 people infected with COVID-19 after 2,747 more contracted the disease, the Department of Health announced on Saturday.
The agency said the total count is now 301,256. Of this number, 63,066 are active cases or are currently ill, with 87.3 percent with mild symptoms, 8.8 percent without symptoms, 2.7 percent in critical condition and 1.2 percent in Serious condition. It added that 90 percent or 2,471 of the new reported cases were detected in the past 14 days.
Metro Manila topped the list of areas that recorded the highest number of infections with 1,115 new cases, followed by Negros Occidental with 196, Cavite with 153, Laguna with 112 and Cebu province with 107 most infected residents, the department reported.
DOH also announced 787 new recoveries, bringing the number of survivors to 232,906. Meanwhile, another 88 people died from the disease, bringing the death toll to 5,285. Of these deaths, one died in April, four in June, eight in July, 13 in August, and 62 in September.
The department also mentioned that it removed 852 duplicate cases from the total, including 259 recoveries. The DOH added that after validating, it found that 21 deaths were mistakenly listed as recoveries from the previous report.
Three COVID-19 labs have not submitted their case reports and were not included in the total, the agency said.
The Department of Foreign Affairs also registered three more Filipinos abroad who tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total infected to 10,433 in 78 countries. DOH verified 2,116 of these cases, the DFA said. Four more people also died from the disease, while nine have recovered. The number of fatalities rose to 790, while the number of survivors rose to 6,654. There are also 2,989 people in treatment, DFA said.
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