Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 15) — The country on Tuesday recorded 2,010 new COVID-19 infections, pushing the nationwide tally to 3,641,940, the Department of Health’s latest bulletin showed.
Of the total case count, 72,305 are active cases or currently ill patients. Among them are 66,093 with mild symptoms; 2,961 experiencing moderate symptoms; 1,498 who are asymptomatic; 1,441 in severe condition; and 312 in critical status.
There are also 6,293 more patients who got well, raising the survivor count to 3,514,489. Meanwhile, 52 new deaths were recorded as the death toll rose to 55,146.
The DOH said all laboratories were operational on Feb. 13. However, five laboratories failed to submit their data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System. Based on data in the past 14 days, the non-reporting laboratories contribute, on average, 0.5% of samples tested and 0.4% of positive samples.
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This is the lowest number of daily cases recorded since Dec. 30 last year, which tallied 1,623 infections.
Of the new cases reported, 1,570 occurred in the past 14 days from Feb. 2 to 15. The top regions with the most cases during the period were the National Capital Region with 238 cases, Calabarzon with 183 cases, and Western Visayas with 159 cases.
Of the new reported deaths, 29 occurred this month and 23 in January. The late reporting was due to the delayed encoding of information to the COVIDKaya data storage system, the DOH explained.
The department also said 12 duplicates were removed from the total case count, nine of which were recoveries.
It added that 34 cases previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation.
The positivity rate, or percentage of tested people with positive results, stood at 10.4% based on 20,084 tests reported on Feb. 13.
But the DOH noted that the low numbers and positivity rate reported today were from Sunday’s laboratory outputs, “which traditionally have the lowest outputs per week.”
