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AFTER hitting the lowest daily count in nearly four months due to non-functioning testing labs due to Typhoon Rolly, coronavirus cases in the country accelerated, returning to the territory of more than 2,000 a day in recent years. three days.
The Department of Health (DOH) confirmed 2,442 additional new infections on Sunday, November 8, 2020, the highest in almost three weeks. Cases also topped 2,000 on November 6 and 7.
New infections raised the daily average for the past seven days from Nov. 2-8 to 1,897, about 1.5 percent higher than the prior week’s daily average of 1,869 from Oct. 26 to Nov. 1.
At 4 p.m. Sunday, the DOH said the total case count in the country rose to 396,395.
The Philippines, however, has continued to slide down the rankings in terms of the number of cases, reaching 25th on Sunday, October 2, and October 22-October 30 according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center tracker. .
Globally, nearly 50 million people have been infected with Sars-CoV-2 and more than 1.2 million had died as of Nov. 8, according to Johns Hopkins.
DOH also said Sunday that there were 11,430 recoveries in the country under the agency’s time-based recovery strategy, which declares coronavirus-positive people recovered after more than 14 days without symptoms.
However, these were 35 percent lower than the 17,727 recoveries a week ago on November 1.
The massive recovery reduced active cases to 27,218, or 6.9 percent of the total case count, and total recoveries to 361,638 (91.2 percent of the total).
There were 54 additional deaths from the coronavirus disease in 2019 (Covid-19), bringing the death toll to 7,539. The country’s fatality rate remained at 1.9 percent.
A total of 22,104 diagnostic tests were performed on November 7, of which 2,079 (9.4 percent) tested positive for Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.
Among the 2,442 cases confirmed on Sunday were 138 from Rizal, 131 from Manila city, 130 from Benguet, 113 from Batangas and 112 from Bulacan.
Health authorities previously explained that the low count on November 4, the first daily count to fall below 1,000 since mid-July, was due to the decline in tests performed as some labs were closed when Typhoon Rolly ( Goni) razed the region of Bicol and others. parts of Luzon on November 1.
Officials warned that the daily virus case count was expected to stay low for a few more days and rise as labs resume testing. (Marites Villamor-Ilano / SunStar Philippines)
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