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The Department of Health (DOH) reported fewer than 1,000 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, January 3, 2021, as the number of people tested for Sars-CoV-2 remained low due to the holidays. New year.
In its case bulletin Sunday, DOH cautioned against complacency, saying “an increase in cases is still possible in the coming weeks.”
As of 4 p.m. Sunday, 891 new infections increased the total case count in the Philippines to 477,807.
Davao City had the highest number of new cases with 65, followed by Rizal Province with 55, Isabela Province with 50, Manila with 40, and Quezon City with 37.
There were four additional deaths, bringing the death toll from the 2019 coronavirus disease (Covid-19) to 9,257. The fatality rate remained at 1.94 percent.
DOH reported massive recoveries of 8,316, bringing the total to 448,258 and reducing active cases to 20,292.
A total of 11,705 people, less than half the usual number of people screened on a regular day, were screened at 12 noon on January 2. Of those tested, 675 or 5.8 percent tested positive for Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.
The number of tests conducted on January 1 and 2 was also low, DOH case bulletins showed.
On New Year’s Day, 15 labs were unable to submit test results conducted on January 1 because the Covid-19 Document Repository System was temporarily unavailable, resulting in a record number of tests performed in one day.
At 12 noon on January 1, only 6,227 people were tested. The positivity rate was quite high, with 456 or 7.3 percent testing positive for Sars-CoV-2.
On the last day of 2020, 33 labs were closed for the day. As of 12 noon on December 31, only 10,710 tests were performed and 769 or 7.2 percent were positive.
Only 150 of 198 licensed laboratories were able to submit reports to DOH that day.
As tests remain low, the number of new infections in the last week of December 28, 2020 to January 3, 2021 fell below 10,000 to 7,921, down from 10,097 in the previous week of December 21 to 27. December 2020.
Worldwide, more than 84.6 million people have been infected. Of this number, more than 1.83 million had died from the 2019 coronavirus disease (Covid-19) as of January 3, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. (Marites Villamor-Ilano / SunStar Philippines)
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