DOH logs only 46 COVID-19 deaths due to reporting glitch

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) reported only 46 COVID-related deaths on Tuesday due to technical issues with its data repository.

With the additional fatalities, the total deaths due to COVID-19 in the country have reached 44,567, or 1.59 percent of all the 2.8 million patients who have had the disease.

An average of 10 patients died per day in November as of November 5, according to Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire on Saturday. She explained that some of the deaths being reported in the daily case bulletin are from the previous months.

The Philippines had its peak of COVID-19 fatalities in September when an average of 193 patients died per day amid the surge in cases driven by the Delta variant.

The country still has 30,544 active cases of COVID. Of the active cases, 60.7 percent are mild, 8 percent are asymptomatic, 17.05 percent are moderate, 10 percent are severe, and 4.2 percent are critical.

Meanwhile, 42 percent of intensive care unit beds, 32 percent of isolation beds, 25 percent of ward beds, and 24 percent of ventilators are currently being used, according to DOH data.

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