MANILA – Under Bulletin 151, the Department of Health on Wednesday, 12 August 2020, reported 4,444 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus bringing the country’s tally of Covid-19 to 143,749.
The DOH said the huge number of confirmed cases reported were based on the total tests done by 91 out of 100 current operational labs.
At the same time, the DOH claimed there were 636 more recoveries which increased the total number of survivors to 68,997.
The health agency further explained that the “4,444 reported cases today, 3,294 (74%) cases occurred within the recent 14 days (July 30-August 12, 2020).”
It added that the top regions with cases within the past 14 days were from NCR (1,855 or 57%), Region 4A (580 or 18%) and Region 3: 190 (6%).
However, the country’s COVID-19 death toll is now at 2,404 after 93 new deaths were recorded.
The 93 Covid-related deaths are broken down as follows: 13 (14%) in August, 49 (53%) in July, 30 (32%) in June, and 1 (1%) in May.
Deaths were accordingly from Region 7 (67 or 72%), NCR (16 or 17%), Region 9 (3 or 3%), Region 6 (2 or 2%), Region 5 (2 or 2%), Region 11 (2 or 2%), and Region 4A (1 or 2%).
There were 231 duplicates that were removed from the total case count. Of these, nine (9) recovered cases and one (1) death have been removed.
In addition, two (2) cases were found to be negative and were removed from the total case count after final validation.
Moreover, the DOH updated the health status of the 62 cases that were previously reported as recovered but after final validation, they were deaths (60) and active (2) cases.
These numbers undergo constant cleaning and validation the DOH said.
