PH logs 4,008 new COVID-19 cases — DOH

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MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines on Saturday logged 4,008 cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections to 2,783,893, the Department of Health (DOH) reported.

Of the total number of cases, 47,690 or 1.7 percent are still tagged as active cases but most of these patients only have mild and asymptomatic cases, at 79.5 percent.

The total number of recoveries is now at 2,693,162, or 96.7 percent of cases, after 6,887 cases were reported.

There were 423 deaths to push the death toll to 43,044, which is 1.55 percent of all cases.

The current positivity rate of cases is currently at 7.8 percent. The World Health Organization said positivity rate must be 5 percent or below to indicate controlled transmission of the virus.

DOH noted that 54 duplicates were removed from the total case count including 44 recoveries.

A case was found to have tested negative and has been removed from the total case count, according to DOH.

“Moreover, 373 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation,” the DOH noted.

Meanwhile, the global infection now stands at 246 million including 4.99 million deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University Case Tracker.

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