Among Filipinos abroad, the Department of Foreign Affairs reported 15 new cases, raising the total to 15,865 in 87 countries. Of this number, 3,711 cases have been verified by the DOH, the DFA said. One more person died while 11 got better, which brought the death toll to 1,041 and the survivor count to 9,547. There are also 5,277 patients undergoing treatment.
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 9) — The country’s coronavirus cases surpassed 600,000 after 2,668 new infections were recorded on Tuesday, according to the Department of Health’s latest bulletin.
The DOH said the total is now 600,428 with 7% or 41,822 active cases or currently ill patients. At least 91.6% of the active cases have mild symptoms, 3.9% have no symptoms, 1.9% are severe cases, 1.8% are in critical condition, and 0.8% are in moderate condition.
Tuesday’s case count also broke the country’s streak of recording more than 3,000 cases a day which had gone on for four days. However, the DOH noted that data from eight testing laboratories were not included in the total since they were not able to submit their reports on time.
Seven more patients also died of COVID-19, raising the death toll to 12,528 or 2.09% of the case total. Meanwhile, 171 others got better which brings the recovery count to 546,078 or 90.9% of the coronavirus tally.
The DOH also said two recoveries were reclassified as fatalities after validation, and it removed three duplicates, including three survivors.
The Philippines has been consistently recording the highest number of new cases in the Western Pacific region, according to the World Health Organization’s charts, which list infections from the region over every 24 hours on weekdays and after every weekend period.
