Of the newly reported cases, 3,661 (97%) occurred within the past 14 days or from Jan. 29 to Feb. 11. The regions with the highest number of new infections in that period were Metro Manila (470 or 13%), Davao Region (453 or 12%) and Western Visayas (455 or 12%).
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 11) — The Department of Health (DOH) logged 3,788 new COVID-19 infections on Friday, bringing the nationwide tally to 3,630,637.
The belated reporting of cases from last year is due to late encoding of information to the COVIDKaya data storage system, the DOH explained.
Of the total, 2.5% or 91,147 are active cases or people currently ill — 83,145 have mild symptoms; 3,261 have no symptoms; 2,986 are in moderate condition; 1,443 have severe symptoms; and 312 are in critical condition.
The death toll rose to 54, 854 — 1.51% of all cases — after 72 more people lost their lives. Among the 72 deaths, 32 (44%) occurred this month and 23 (32%) last month. There were also 17 from last year: two in December, one in October, three in September, eight in August, one in July, and two in June.
Meanwhile, 5,652 others got well, raising the recovery count to 3,484,636 or 96% of total cases.
One laboratory did not submit its data on time, the DOH added. That laboratory contributed an average of 0.1% of tested samples and 0.01% of positive individuals in the last 14 days.
The DOH said it reclassified 52 initially tagged survivors as among the dead after validation, and deleted 726 duplicate cases, including 449 recoveries and one fatality.
The positivity rate, or percentage of tested people with positive results, further dropped to 14.7% based on 32,795 tests reported on Feb. 9.
The World Health Organization recommends a positivity rate of below 5% for countries to reopen.
