PH Covid-19 recoveries rise by 9K to 1,577,267

An additional 9,591 patients have beaten the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), pushing the country’s overall recovery count to 1,577,267 on Wednesday.

The Department of Health (DOH), in its latest Covid-19 bulletin, said recoveries account for 93.4 percent of the total 1,688,040 infections since the start of the pandemic last year.

Another 12,021 new cases and 154 new deaths were also reported. These figures bring the overall tally of active cases to 81,339 and the death toll to 29,374.

The latest figures showed 94.8 percent of the active cases are mild, 1.5 percent are asymptomatic, 1.6 percent are severe, 1.15 percent are moderate, and 1 percent are in critical condition.

“There were 137 duplicates removed from the total case count as 129 of these are recoveries. Moreover, three cases previously tagged as recovered were reclassified as active cases and 112 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation,” it said.

DOH data on Aug. 9 showed that 21.9 percent of 38,478 who were tested turned out positive for Covid-19.

All laboratories were operational on that date while three laboratories were not able to submit their data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System.

Based on data in the last 14 days, the three non-reporting labs contribute, on average, 2.0 percent of samples tested and 1.2 percent of positive individuals.

To date, 68 percent of 3,800 intensive care unit beds, 57 percent of 19,900 isolation beds, 59 percent of 13,400 ward beds, and 49 percent of 2,900 ventilators dedicated to patients with Covid-19 are in use nationwide.

Meanwhile, 69 percent of 1,200 intensive care unit beds, 58 percent of 4,700 isolation beds, 62 percent of 3,900 ward beds, and 51 percent of 1,000 ventilators reserved for patients with Covid-19 are being used in Metro Manila. (PNA)

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