DOH: 3 more PUIs checked for COVID-19 get admitted to hospitals

MANILA, Philippines — Three more patients under investigation (PUIs) for the COVID-19 or coronavirus disease are now admitted to hospitals nationwide, records from the Department of Health (DOH) showed Wednesday.

Based on the health department’s PUI tracker, the number of admitted patients monitored for the deadly virus increased from 98 to 101, as of 12 noon.

Meanwhile, 501 PUIs were discharged from hospitals after they tested negative for the virus which makes the total number of patients checked at 614.

Here is the breakdown of persons observed for the deadly virus per region:

Metro Manila – 86 admitted, 116 discharged, 2 confirmed cases, 1 mortality

Calabarzon – 4 admitted, 75 discharged

Central Visayas – 3 admitted, 58 discharged, 1 confirmed case

Central Luzon – 2 admitted, 60 discharged

Western Visayas – 0 admitted, 38 discharged

Cagayan Valley – 1 admitted, 35 discharged

Cordillera Administrative Region – 2 admitted, 26 discharged

Davao Region – 0 admitted, 23 discharged

Eastern Visayas – 0 admitted, 18 discharged

Northern Mindanao – 1 admitted, 16 discharged

Mimaropa – 0 admitted, 15 discharged

Bicol Region – 0 admitted, 13 discharged

Ilocos Region – 1 admitted, 11 discharged

Soccsksargen – 1 admitted, 2 discharged

Caraga – 0 admitted, 3 discharged

BARMM – 0 admitted, 1 discharged

In a press conference at the DOH main office, Health Chief Francisco Duque III said 72.5 percent of the admitted PUIs are Filipinos, 20 percent are Chinese, three percent are Americans while only one percent are from other nationalities.

Duque said no Filipinos have contracted the virus so far due to improved surveillance done by the Bureau of Quarantine.

“We are doing hopefully a lot of right things at different right levels because several weeks we have not received any report of local transmission,” the Health chief said.

The number of confirmed COVID-19 globally increased from  77,794  to more than 80,000 cases. Of the total, 77,658 cases are from mainland China, the hardest-hit by the coronavirus outbreak.

Edited by JPV, JE