{"id":262072,"date":"2020-07-18T00:36:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T04:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=262072"},"modified":"2020-07-18T00:37:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T04:37:09","slug":"1841-new-covid-19-cases-total-now-at-63k-doh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/18\/1841-new-covid-19-cases-total-now-at-63k-doh\/","title":{"rendered":"1,841 new Covid-19 cases, total now at 63K: DOH"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_261408\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261408\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/COVID.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-261408 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/COVID.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/COVID.png 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/COVID-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/COVID-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/COVID-1024x614.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-261408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In its daily Covid-19 case bulletin, the DOH said majority of the new cases were reported from the City of Manila with 441 new infections, followed by Quezon City (140), Mandaluyong City (96), Cebu City (87), and the City of Navotas (86). (PCI photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) infections continued to rise with 1,841 new cases reported by the Department of Health (DOH) on Friday, bringing the country\u2019s total to 63,001.<\/p>\n<p>In its daily Covid-19 case bulletin, the DOH said majority of the new cases were reported from the City of Manila with 441 new infections, followed by Quezon City (140), Mandaluyong City (96), Cebu City (87), and the City of Navotas (86).<\/p>\n<p>Of the total cases, it said 39,593 were active \u2014 the total number of infections without deaths and recoveries from Covid-19 \u2014 90 percent of which were showing mild symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>The rest, it said, were asymptomatic at 8.8 percent, severe at 0.4 percent, and critical at 0.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>More recoveries were reported at 311, bringing the total number of recoveries to 21,748.<\/p>\n<p>About 17 deaths were also reported, bringing the country\u2019s total number of casualties at 1,660.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday, it said a total of 1,009,511 individual tests for Covid-19 have been conducted since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, its data also showed that the country remains to have sufficient capacity to take care of the infected.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the country\u2019s 1,661 beds at intensive care units (ICU), it said 685 or 41.2 percent are currently occupied with the rest available.<\/p>\n<p>For isolation beds, it said the country has a total of 10,410 \u2014 with 5,036 or 48.4 percent currently occupied.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 3,477 ward beds, it said 1,985 or 57.1 percent are currently occupied.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s ventilators number 1,938, with 499 or 25.7 percent currently in use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) infections continued to rise with 1,841 new cases reported by the Department of Health (DOH) on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":261408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-raymond-carl-dela-cruz","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262073,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262072\/revisions\/262073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}