Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 30) — The Department of Health on Sunday said 16,953 more people nationwide fell ill with COVID-19, bringing the case tally to 3,545,680.
According to the DOH, 16,647 (98%) of the new infections occurred within the last 14 days. Western Visayas was the top contributing region with 2,000 cases (12%), followed by Metro Manila with 1,967 (12%), and Calabarzon with 1,871 (11%).
The department also confirmed 27,638 new survivors and 20 more fatalities, which raised the recovery count to 3,288,925 and the death toll to 53,891.
Of the newly announced deaths, the DOH said 16 transpired this month while four were from July to October last year and were encoded late.
The country’s active cases fell to 5.7% or 202,864 of the total, from Saturday’s 6.1% or over 213,000.
The bulletin showed that 186,550 of the currently sick are mild cases, 11,277 are asymptomatic, 3,176 are moderate, 1,534 are severe, and 327 are critical.
It also detailed that 56,078 coronavirus tests were reported on Jan. 28, with a positivity rate of 31.4%. This means nearly 1 in 3 people tested were found infected with COVID-19.
The DOH said only one testing laboratory didn’t submit data on time. It added that this facility contributed around 0.03% of samples tested and of positive results over the last two weeks.
After final validation, the department reclassified as deaths eight cases it earlier recorded as recoveries. It also removed 69 duplicate entries from its data.
