DOH records 4,487 new COVID-19 cases, the lowest number in 2 months
CNN Philippines — The country logged 4,487 new COVID-19 infections, the lowest in two months, but this excludes data from eight laboratories, the Department of Health said on Tuesday.
It is the lowest daily case count after March 17, when there were 4,387 cases reported.
The nationwide tally of cases is now at 1,154,388, with 4.5% or 52,291 active or currently ill patients, according to the DOH daily case bulletin. At least 93.1% of the active cases have mild symptoms, 2.2% have no symptoms, 2% have severe symptoms, 1.5% are in critical condition and 1.29% are moderate, the department added.
The death toll increased to 19,372 – which is 1.68% of the case tally – after 110 more people lost their lives to the disease. The DOH said 64 of the new fatalities were previously tagged as recoveries and reclassified after validation.
Meanwhile, 6,383 more people were cleared of the virus, raising the recovery count to 1,082,725 or 93.8% of the COVID-19 total. The Health Department said it deleted 24 duplicates including 22 survivors.
The DOH said the eight laboratories which failed to submit their data on time contributed over the past two weeks an average of 2.5% of samples tested and 2.7% positive individuals.
