DOH reports 9,055 more COVID cases, no new deaths due to technical glitch

MANILA, Philippines — The country’s total active cases of COVID-19 is now at 103,077 as the Department of Health (DOH) reports 9,055 new cases of the disease, a lower figure due to low laboratory output last Sunday.

According to DOH, the active cases as of Tuesday compose only 3.9 percent of the total 2,613,070 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic started.

Meanwhile, the DOH also reported 12,134 additional recoveries, which raised the number of patients who have recuperated from COVID-19 to 2,471,165, or 94.6 percent of the tally.

There were no additional deaths reported again due to technical issues in the COVIDKaya system, the department’s central repository of all data related to the pandemic response.

“The DOH is in constant coordination with the DICT (Department of Information and Communications Technology) to resolve technical issues with COVIDKaya. DOH will then again issue necessary public advisories to report additional deaths not included in today’s case bulletin due to technical issues of COVIDKaya,” the agency said.

On positivity rate, 19.3 percent of 41,673 individuals who were tested were found positive for coronavirus on Sunday.

The DOH said seven testing laboratories were not able to submit their data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System. The non-reporting labs contributed 1.9 percent of samples tested and 0.9 percent of positive individuals on average in the last 14 days.

Twenty-five duplicate entries, including 21 recoveries, were removed from the total case count.

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