Of the newly reported cases, 3,625 (96%) occurred within the past 14 days or from Jan. 30 to Feb. 12, the DOH said.
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 12) — The Department of Health (DOH) reported 3,792 new COVID-19 infections on Saturday, bringing the nationwide tally to 3,634,368.
Of the total, 2.3% or 84,229 are active cases, or currently sick patients with 76,487 experiencing mild symptoms, 3,016 without symptoms, 2,971 in moderate condition, 1,443 with severe symptoms, and 312 in critical condition.
The death toll rose to 54,930 — 1.51% of all infections — after 76 more people lost their lives. Among the 76 new fatalities, 50 (66%) occurred this month and five (7%) last month.
Meanwhile, 10,662 others got better, raising the recovery count to 3,495,209 or 96.2% of the case count.
Four laboratories did not submit their data on time, the DOH said. These laboratories contributed an average of 0.6% of tested samples and 0.2% of positive individuals in the last 14 days, it added.
The regions with the highest number of new cases in that period were Metro Manila (520 or 14%), Western Visayas (397 or 11%) and Davao Region (328 or 9%), it added.
There were also 21 deaths traced back to last year: three in December, two in November, three in October, five in September, four in August, one in July, one in May, and two in April. The belated reporting was due to late encoding of information to the COVIDKaya data storage system, the DOH explained.
The department said it reclassified 39 initially tagged survivors as among the dead after validation, and deleted 61 duplicate cases, including 50 recoveries.
The positivity rate, or percentage of people tested with positive results, slightly dropped to 14.3% based on 32,067 tests reported on Feb. 10, according to the DOH.
The World Health Organization recommends a positivity rate of below 5% for countries to reopen.
