Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 31) — Coronavirus infections in the country rose past 525,000 on Sunday, a year after the local outbreak was confirmed.
With 2,103 new cases recorded by the Department of Health, the nationwide tally now stands at 525,618, of which 27,318 or 5.2% are active cases. The DOH said that of the active cases 87.7% experience mild symptoms, 5.5% have no symptoms, 3.3% are critical cases, 2.8% are severe cases, and 0.6% are moderate cases.
It also announced that 11,653 more patients have gotten well, raising the number of recoveries to 487,551. This makes up 92.8% of all those infected.
The latest report said 80 more died, pushing up the death toll to 10,749.
In its last three daily reports, the DOH didn’t list the top contributing areas that earlier bulletins included. It also did not indicate in its latest report the number of testing laboratories which were able to submit their data on time.
This February, Metro Manila will extend its general community quarantine status anew, the third strictest classification in the country. The Cordillera Administrative Region — wherein most of the country’s UK variant cases are recorded, as well as Batangas, Tacloban City, Davao City, Davao del Norte, Lanao del Sur, and Iligan City will also be under GCQ from Feb. 1 to Feb. 28.
The rest of the country will be under modified GCQ, the lowest form of community quarantine.
