COVID-19 death toll tops 38,000
CNN Philippines — The country’s COVID-19 death toll soared to 38,164 with 190 new fatalities on Wednesday, the Department of Health reported.
About an hour before the agency posted its latest case bulletin, it also announced 292 additional deaths from backlogs.
The bulletin logged 12,805 new cases, bringing the infection tally to 2,535,732.
“The relatively low cases today is due to lower laboratory output last Monday, September 27,” said the DOH.
The department said testing output on September 27 was only 51,377 compared to the 70,134 average daily test results in the last seven days.
Out of the total number of cases, 5.2% or 132,339 are active or currently sick patients. At least 76.7% of active cases have mild symptoms, 16.4% are asymptomatic, 3.91% are in moderate condition, 2.1% have severe symptoms and 0.9% are in critical condition.
Recoveries rose to 2,365,229 or 93.3% of the case count after 12,236 more people got better.
The DOH said it reclassified 120 survivors into deaths after validation and deleted 38 duplicate cases, including 27 recoveries.
Data from one laboratory were excluded from the count due to failure to submit its report on time, the DOH added. The laboratory contributed an average of 0.2% of samples tested and 0.3% of positive individuals in the last 14 days.
