The Philippines on Sunday logged 1,530 new cases of COVID-19 infections, bringing the total to 407,838 after nine laboratories failed to submit reports, the Department of Health said.
“Nine labs were not able to submit their data to the COVID-19 Data Repository System on November 14, 2020,” the department said.
There were 25,677 active cases, which were 6.3-percent of the total.
Of the active cases, 82.5 percent were mild, 8.4 percent were asymptomatic, 5.6 percent were critical, 3.2 percent were severe and 0.20 percent were moderate.
The top provinces and cities with new cases were Cavite, 90; Rizal, 84; Manila, 79; Davao City, 78 and Taguig 73.
The department also reported 11,290 new recoveries, bringing the total recoveries to 374,329, which were 91.8 percent of the total cases.
The “mass recovery” initiative was due to thousands of survivors of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
This initiative which is also called Oplan Recovery is the department’s adjustment or response to the updated guidelines of the World Health Organization, where symptomatic and asymptomatic cases could already be discharged after a 10-day quarantine without retesting.
The department also reported 41 new fatalities, bringing the death toll to 7,832, which were 1.92- percent of the total cases.
The department said 12 duplicates were removed from the total case count, and of those eight were recovered cases.
In addition, 17 recovered cases were found to be negative and were removed from the total case count after final validation. Moreover, four cases previously tagged as recovered were reclassified as deaths.
The department also said that, nationwide, of the approximately 1,900 total ICU bed capacity, 56 percent were available; of the approximately 13,500 total isolation bed capacity, 59 percent were available; of the approximately 5,900 total ward bed capacity 69 percent were available, and of the 2,000 total units of ventilators 79 percent were available.
The country’s first COVID-19 case was a 38-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan.
Worldwide, the novel coronavirus has infected over 54.34 million people and caused over 1.31 million deaths since it first emerged in Wuhan in late 2019, according to the tracking website worldometers.info.
The United States remains the most badly affected country with over 11.22 million infections and more than 251,000 deaths.
India follows with over 8.8-million infections.
Brazil ranks third with more than 5.84-million infections, but is second in terms of deaths with over 165,000 COVID-19 fatalities.
