DOH reports 3,656 new COVID-19 cases

Facade of the DOH main office in Manila. INQUIRER.net file photo

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) reported 3,656 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, taking the country’s total active cases of the disease to 67,061.

The active cases compose 2.5 percent of the total 2,735,369 confirmed coronavirus infections, according to the DOH bulletin. Of the active cases, 84.7 percent are mild and asymptomatic.

Meanwhile, the health agency only logged 228 additional recoveries and five more deaths due to technical issues with COVIDKaya, the DOH’s central repository of data related to the pandemic response.

“Additional recoveries and deaths shall be reflected in the case bulletin in the following days. Rest assured that the DICT (Department of Information and Communications Technology) is currently addressing these issues,” the DOH said.

Overall, there are now 2,627,331 patients who have recovered and 40,977 who have died.

On healthcare utilization, 59 percent of ICU beds, 46 percent of isolation beds, 44 percent of ward beds, and 43 percent of ventilators are currently being used.

Some 11.6 percent of 42,296 individuals who were tested were found positive for coronavirus on Monday, said the DOH.

Only two testing laboratories were not able to submit their data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System. These laboratories contributed an average of 0.5 percent of samples tested and 1.2 percent of positive individuals in the last 14 days.

The DOH removed from the total case tally 20 duplicates, including 16 recoveries, and reclassified five recoveries as deaths after final validation.

“In addition, 2 cases were found to have tested negative and have been removed from the total case count. These 2 are recoveries,” the department also said.