PH logs 6.7K more Covid-19 recoveries

MANILA – The Department of Health (DOH) reported 6,778 more recoveries, pushing the country’s total recovery count to 1,461,749 as of Saturday.

In its latest case bulletin, the agency also logged 6,216 new infections and 241 deaths, bringing the number of active cases and death toll to 54,401 and 27,131, respectively.

“The technical issue reported about COVIDKaya has been resolved. The unusually high number of deaths reported today can be attributed to a backlog of cases being updated after the resolution of the system error,” the DOH said.

Out of the 45,592 individuals tested since July 22, DOH said 13 percent or at least 5,926 turned out positive for SARS-CoV-2.

The DOH noted that all laboratories were operational on July 22 but two were not able to submit their data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System (CDRS).

Since the pandemic started, the country has so far recorded 1,543,281 in total confirmed cases — 3.5 percent are undergoing treatment, 94.7 percent are recoveries, while 1.76 percent are fatalities.

Of the overall active cases, DOH said 93.4 percent have mild symptoms, 1.2 percent are asymptomatic. 1.4 percent are critical, 2.3 percent are severe, while 1.62 percent are moderate.

To date, the country’s intensive care unit beds are 56 percent occupied, including the 48 percent of dedicated isolation beds and 45 percent of ward beds for Covid-19 patients.

In the National Capital Region, in use are 45 percent of the ICU beds, 40 percent of the isolation beds, and 35 percent of the ward beds.