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The Department of Health (DOH) reported more than 2,000 new cases of coronavirus infection on Saturday, October 17.
The National Capital Region (NCR), which the DOH has mistakenly included in the past eight months among the “top provinces for recently announced cases,” was not on the list Saturday.
Instead, DOH simplified the list to include only the provinces, highly urbanized cities, and independent component cities.
NCR or Metro Manila is made up of 16 highly urbanized cities (HUC) and a municipality with a combined population of more than 12 million. The sum of new cases from these HUCs and the municipality has been consistently the highest among the regions.
With the list now simplified to provinces, HUC and CPI, only Quezon City in the NCR ranks among the areas with the highest number of new cases.
Quezon City reported 143 new cases, the fourth highest on Saturday, after 185 in Rizal, 175 in Cavite and 159 in Batangas. Bulacan had the fifth highest number of cases at 88.
The new cases brought the total number of Covid-19 cases in the country to 354,338.
The DOH said 73 more patients have also succumbed to Covid-19, bringing the death toll to 6,603.
He said most of the new deaths were recorded in NCR with 32.
Calabarzon and Central Luzon also saw high death toll with 10 and 9, respectively.
As for recoveries, the DOH said there were 539 new recoveries, bringing the total to 295,312.
Globally, as of October 16, there have been more than 38.78 million confirmed cases of Covid-19, including 1.09 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization. (HDT / SunStar Philippines)
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