{"id":268505,"date":"2020-09-12T07:04:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T11:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=268505"},"modified":"2020-09-12T07:04:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T11:04:59","slug":"doh-reports-4-9k-new-covid-19-infections-active-cases-at-66k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/12\/doh-reports-4-9k-new-covid-19-infections-active-cases-at-66k\/","title":{"rendered":"DOH reports 4.9K new Covid-19 infections, active cases at 66K"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_261408\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261408\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/COVID.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-261408\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/COVID-1024x614.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/COVID-1024x614.png 1024w, 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.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-261408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases in the Philippines to 257,863. (PCI photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday reported 4,935 new coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) infections, with a total of 66,455 active cases.<\/p>\n<p>In its Covid-19 case bulletin, the DOH also reported 659 additional recoveries and 186 deaths, raising the total number of recoveries and fatalities to 187,116 and 4,292, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the new cases, 2,619 were from the National Capital Region (NCR), followed by Cavite with 343, Laguna with 258, Rizal with 227, and Negros Occidental with 177.<\/p>\n<p>This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases in the Philippines to 257,863.<\/p>\n<p>The DOH noted that of the new cases, 4,034 or 82 percent occurred within the past 14 days from August 30 to September 12.<\/p>\n<p>The regions with the most number of newly reported cases in the past two weeks were the NCR with 2,025 or 50 percent, Region 4-A (Calabarzon) with 872 or 22 percent, and Region 3 (Central Luzon) with 330 or 8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Of the reported active cases, the DOH said 89.2 percent are considered mild, 8.2 percent are asymptomatic cases, 1.1 percent are severe, and 1.6 percent are critical.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of hospital bed capacity nationwide, 52 percent of 1,800 intensive care unit beds are available, along with 56 percent of isolations beds, and 52 percent of ward beds.<\/p>\n<p>Some 74 percent of mechanical ventilators are also available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday reported 4,935 new coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) infections, with a total of &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-268505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-marita-moaje","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268505","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=268505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268506,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268505\/revisions\/268506"}],"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=268505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}