The daily positivity rate, or percentage of people that tested positive, rose to 11% based on 31,987 tests on July 12. The OCTA Research team classifies the figure as “high” based on the metric of the Covid Act Now, an initiative developed with the Harvard Health Institute, Bloomberg, Apple, and Microsoft. An area needs to achieve a positivity rate of below 3% to say that it has adequate testing, according to the criteria.
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, July 14) — COVID-19 cases in the country rose to 1,485,457 after 3,806 more people got infected, the Department of Health reported on Wednesday.
The DOH case bulletin said 3% of the case count or 44,408 were active cases or currently ill patients, with at least 90% experiencing mild symptoms, 3.5% with no symptoms, 2.8% with severe symptoms, 1.95% in moderate condition and 1.7% in critical condition. It is the lowest active case count after March 9, when there were over 41,000 sick patients.
The death toll also climbed to 26,232 or 1.77% of total cases after 140 more people lost their lives to the disease.
The recovery tally increased to 1,414,817 or 95.2% of the COVID-19 count with 6,296 new survivors.
The DOH said it reclassified 105 survivors into fatalities after validation and deleted nine duplicate cases, including eight recoveries.
The updated numbers exclude data from five laboratories that failed to submit their reports on time, the DOH said. These laboratories contributed an average of 2.1% of samples tested and 1.9% of positive individuals in the last 14 days.
