Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, June 20) – The country logged 5,803 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, the Department of Health’s latest bulletin showed.
Of the 1,359,015 total cases nationwide, 57,679 or 4.2% are active cases. At least 91.9% are experiencing mild symptoms, 3.7% are asymptomatic, 1.3% are critical, 1.8% have severe symptoms, and 1.29% are experiencing moderate symptoms.
Meanwhile, the death toll jumped to 23,621 after 84 more patients succumbed to COVID-19. This is lower than the daily death toll recorded in the past five days, wherein the country logged more than 100 deaths.
The number of survivors also rose to 1,277,715 with 7,652 new recoveries.
The DOH said that eight duplicates were removed from the nationwide tally. Of these, six are recoveries and one death.
It added that 115 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries have been validated to be active cases. Meanwhile, 59 cases that were previously reported as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation.
All laboratories were operational on June 18, while two laboratories were not able to submit their data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System. Based on data in the last 14 days, the two non-reporting laboratories contribute, on average, 0.14% of samples tested and 0.13% of positive cases.
The daily positivity rate or percentage of people that tested positive stood at 13.2% based on 48,073 tests done on June 18. The World Health Organization recommended that positivity rates must be below 5% as higher numbers may mean high transmission.
OCTA also flagged that the intensive care unit utilization rate in Iloilo City, Iloilo; Koronadal, South Cotabato; and Bacoor, Cavite has reached 100% from June 13-19. This means that hospital ICUs in the said the local government units have already reached full capacity.
Seven other LGUs also found their ICU utilization rate at critical level or at least 85% of ICU beds occupied: Davao City (95%), General Santos (86%), Tagum (85%), San Pablo, Laguna (86%), Tuguegarao (98%), Cotabato City (94%), and Naga City (85%).
Meanwhile, the OCTA Research group on Sunday said Davao City had the most number of new COVID-19 cases outside Metro Manila from June 13-19. In its latest report, the group said the city averaged 252 new infections per day, higher than the 177 daily average cases recorded from June 6-12.
Meantime, the Department of Foreign Affairs reported seven new COVID-19 cases among Filipinos abroad, bringing the total to 20,431.
The DFA added that there were no new recoveries or deaths reported. To date, the death toll among overseas Filipinos is at 1,220 and the recovery count is at 12,096.
