PH COVID-19 cases surpass 200,000

At 4 p.m. today, the Department of Health (DOH) reported 5,277 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of infections to 202,361 in the country. Of these newly-reported cases, 82% or 4,350 were chronicled between August 13 and August 26.

TOP PLACES WITH NEWLY-REPORTED CASES

The National Capital Region (NCR), being the epicenter of COVID-19 outbreak in the country, tops the list with 3,157 new cases followed by Laguna (403), Negros Occidental (304), Rizal (237), and Cavite (228).

DOH saw a relative increase of local transmission in Negros Occidental, which made it to the list of top places with newly-reported cases for 2 consecutive days.

ACTIVE CASES, RECOVERIES, AND DEATHS

With DOH’s mass recovery scheme, the country’s number of recoveries breached the 100,000 mark.
Today, 1,131 new patients have recovered, while 99 have died, bringing the total to 133,460 recovered patients and 3,137 deaths. Meanwhile, DOH’s data showed that there are 65,764 active cases in the country.

DOH added that 80 duplicates were removed from the previous total case count. Of these, 58 recovered cases have been removed as the numbers underwent validation.

CASE FATALITY RATE, CASE DOUBLING TIME, AND NUMBER OF TESTS

Despite the evident increase in the number of cases, DOH remained firm in its stand that the country is handling the pandemic well.
In its latest bulletin, DOH highlighted the cases fatality rate – defined as the proportion of people who died from COVID-19 among individuals diagnosed with the disease – as faring better at 1.55% compared to the global case fatality rate of 3.37%.

With the case doubling time or the number of days it takes for cases to double, the country is said to be faring better with 9.97 days compared to the 1.55 days back March 15, 2020, which marked the start of the Luzon-wide Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ).

To date, a total of 2,245,872 individuals have been tested.