Of the newly reported infections, 6,673 (98%) occurred within the past 14 days, or from Jan. 25 to Feb. 7.
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 7) — The Department of Health (DOH) reported 6,835 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, bringing the nationwide tally to 3,616,387.
Of the total, 3.2% or 116,720 are active cases, including 103,900 persons experiencing mild symptoms; 7,806 with no symptoms; 3,184 in moderate condition; 1,495 with severe symptoms; and 335 in critical condition.
The death toll increased to 54,538 — 1.51% of all infections — after 12 more people lost their lives. All 12 fatalities occurred in January but were reported late due to delayed encoding of information to the COVIDKaya data storage system, the DOH explained.
Meanwhile, 16,330 others got well, raising the recovery count to 3,445,129 or 95.3% of the case total.
Two laboratories did not submit their data on time, the DOH added. These laboratories contributed an average of 0.2% of tested samples and 0.1% of positive individuals in the last 14 days.
The regions with the highest number of new cases in the period were Metro Manila (949 or 14%), Western Visayas (822 or 12%) and Central Visayas (624 or 9%).
The DOH said it also reclassified 12 initially tagged as survivors as among the dead after validation, and deleted 16 duplicate cases, including four recoveries.
The positivity rate, or percentage of tested people with positive results, dropped further to 19.1% based on 36,773 tests reported on Feb. 5.
The rate dropped to below 20% for the first time since Jan. 2. However, the World Health Organization recommends the figure should be below 5% for countries to reopen.
