PH Reports 1,733 New COVID-19 Cases, While Recoveries Nearing 400,000

MANILA – The health department registered 1,733 additional cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing the country’s accumulated to 438,069.

This is the sixth day in a row that daily cases counted less than 2,000, but according to the Department of Health (DOH), it does not include data from 15 laboratories that did not submit results to the COVID-19 Data Repository System on Friday.

Davao City led the areas of the country with the highest number of new infections after registering 162 additional cases, followed by Quezon City with 92, Benguet with 80, Rizal Province with 70 and Laguna Province with 66.

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Since the end of November, the city of Davao has been a government-monitored area due to the continued increase in COVID-19 cases.

Meanwhile, the number of recovered patients nationwide rose to 399,582 as the DOH recorded 133 more recoveries. Total recoveries represent 91.2 percent of all registered cases.

The virus, which first appeared in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year, has claimed 17 more lives. The death toll stood at 8,526.

A total of 29,961 or 6.8 percent of the total number of cases are considered active infections. The DOH said 92.7 percent of currently ill patients are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms, while 4.6 percent are critically ill.

Of the 24,843 people who were tested as of noon Friday, 1,142 or 4.6 percent tested positive for the disease, the data showed.

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A total of 9 duplicates were removed from the total count, the DOH said. Of these, 5 were labeled as recovered cases.

A total of 3 cases initially labeled as recoveries were also found to be deaths after validation.

Nearly 66 million people worldwide have contracted COVID-19, according to a tally by the US-based Johns Hopkins University, where the US, India, Brazil, Russia and France have the highest number of cases. accumulated.

Since the pandemic began, more than 1.5 million people have died and 42.3 million have recovered.