COVID-19 cases in PH breach 1.9M, active infections highest since April
CNN Philippines – The country on Friday reached two grim milestones in its ongoing battle against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
The total number of COVID-19 cases in the country passed the 1.9 million mark after 17,477 more people caught the coronavirus, the Department of Health (DOH) reported.
The DOH case bulletin also counted a total of 1,916,141 cases in the country with 7.4 percent or 142,351 of them active or currently ill. It’s the highest active case tally following April 19, when there were over 141,000 sick patients.
At least 96.2 percent of active cases have mild symptoms, 1.1 percent have severe symptoms, 1.1 percent are asymptomatic, 0.96 percent are in moderate condition and 0.6 percent are in critical condition.
The death toll also rose to 32,841–which is 1.71 percent of the COVID-19 total–after 113 more people lost their lives. This breaks the nine consecutive days of recording over 150 deaths recorded daily.
DOH spokesperson and Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergiere said in a briefing on Friday morning the agency has noted the rising COVID-19 deaths in the country, inching closer to the average number of fatalities per day recorded during the surge in April.
Meanwhile, 6,711 more people recovered, bringing the survivor tally to 1,741,089 or 90.8 percent of the cases.
The DOH said it removed 186 duplicates from the total case count, all of which are tagged as recoveries. Around 47 cases previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified into deaths after final validation.
The total excludes data from one laboratory which failed to submit its report on time. It contributed an average of 0.1 percent of tested samples and 0.1 percent of positive individuals in the last 14 days.
