PHL LOGS ADDL 22,958 COVID CASES; TOTAL INFECTIONS RISE TO 3,293,625

THE Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday logged additional 22,958 Covid-19 cases, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 3,293,625.

There were also 36,611 recoveries and 82 deaths. Of the 22,958 reported cases, 21,691 (94 percent) occurred within the recent 14 days (January 6 to January 19, 2022).

The top regions with cases in the recent two weeks were National Capital Region (7,861 or 36 percent), Region 4A (4,647 or 21 percent) and Region 3 (2,049 or 9 percent).

Of the 82 deaths, 56 occurred in January 2022 (68 percent), eight in October 2021 (10 percent), 15 in September 2021 (18 percent), one in July 2021 (1 percent), 1 in May 2021 (1 percent), and 1 in January 2021 (1 percent) due to late encoding of death information to COVIDKAYA.

This issue, the DOH said, is currently being coordinated with the Epidemiology and Surveillance Units to ensure information is up to date.

Of the total number of cases, 8.2 percent (270,728) are active, 90.2 percent (2,969,853) have recovered, and 1.61 percent (53,044) died.

There were 91 duplicates were removed from the total case count. Of these, 64 are recoveries.

Moreover, 32 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation.

All laboratories were operational on January 17, 2022 but six labs were not able to submit their data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System.

Based on data in the last 14 days, the six labs contribute, on average, 1.5 percent of samples tested and 1.9 percent of positive individuals.