COVID-19 PANDEMIC: Philippines’ 119,460 cases now has most cases in Southeast Asia –
COVID-19 cases in PH soar to 119,460 with 3,561 new infections
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‘The 2019 Plague” Day 252
MANILA, Philippines — There are now 119,460 cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Philippines as the Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday recorded an additional 3,561 infections.
Of the total cases, 50,473 are considered as active cases, according to the latest data provided by the DOH.
Metro Manila has the most number of new cases with 2,041, followed by Laguna with 222, Cebu with 221, Cavite with 100, and Rizal with 81.
Aside from this, there were an additional 569 recoveries, bringing the total number of recoveries to 66,837.
However, the country’s COVID-19 death toll rose to 2,150 after the DOH logged in 28 new fatalities.
The DOH also noted that there were 81 duplicates – which included two recovered cases – that were removed from the total case count.
One case, the DOH added, that was previously reported as a fatality was then validated to be as a recovery, and is now included in the total count of recoveries. By: Katrina Hallare – / INQUIRER.net
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Philippines now has most cases in Southeast Asia –
MANILA, Philippines — With 119,460 total infections, the Philippines now has the most coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in Southeast Asia.
On Thursday, the Department of Health (DOH) reported 3,561 new COVID-19 cases, putting the country ahead of Indonesia in terms of total COVID-19 cases in the region.
Indonesia’s Health Ministry announced 1,882 new infections, bringing its total COVID-19 caseload to 118,753, the Jakarta Post reported.
Metro Manila, the epicenter of the outbreak in the country, accounts for more than half or 2,041 of the Philippines’ new cases.
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The country’s total fatality increased to 2,150 with the addition of 28 new deaths. Meanwhile, the recoveries also rose to 66,837 after 569 more people were able to defeat the infectious disease.
The capital region, along with the provinces of Laguna, Cavite, Rizal, and Bulacan has been reverted to the stricter modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) from Aug. 4 to 18 to give medical frontliners a “timeout” to recuperate from exhaustion in battling the pandemic and to provide the government time to “regroup” and beef up its COVID-19 response.
According to the Philippines’ Testing Czar Vince Dizon, the rise in the number of coronavirus cases was due to the country’s ramped up testing efforts.
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The DOH echoed this, pointing out that as of Aug. 4, a total of 1,643,539 people have been tested for COVID-19 with an average of 28,938 tests per day within the last seven days.
According to the DOH, this is significantly higher than Indonesia’s record of having tested a total of 908,000 individuals as of Aug. 4 and having a testing average of 14,29 per day within the seven days. [ac]
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