Philippines sets new record high with over 15,000 Covid-19 cases
FOUR days after logging more than 10,000 Covid19 cases in a single day, the Philippines broke its own record again, this time with over 15,000 additional infections, a new all-time high for the country.Close to 4,000 of the new cases, however, came from backlogs, the Department of Health (DOH) clarified.
The DOH case bulletin showed 15,310 new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases that brought the cumulative caseload to 771,497 infections.
The health department, though, stressed that 3,709 of the newly reported cases are considered coming from backlogs due to a CovidKaya system issue back on March 31, 2021.
"On March 31, 2021, the DOH reported only 6,128 new cases due to CovidKaya system issue. After system checks, validation and deduplication were made, 3,709 additional cases were confirmed," the DOH said in an advisory.
April 02, 2021
FOUR days after logging more than 10,000 Covid-19 cases in a single day, the Philippines broke its own record again, this time with over 15,000 additional infections, a new all-time high for the country.
Close to 4,000 of the new cases, however, came from backlogs, the Department of Health (DOH) clarified.
The DOH case bulletin showed 15,310 new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases that brought the cumulative caseload to 771,497 infections.
The health department, though, stressed that 3,709 of the newly reported cases are considered coming from backlogs due to a CovidKaya system issue back on March 31, 2021.
"On March 31, 2021, the DOH reported only 6,128 new cases due to CovidKaya system issue. After system checks, validation and deduplication were made, 3,709 additional cases were confirmed," the DOH said in an advisory.
“All system issues have been resolved and measures were put in place to prevent the same issue from happening again,” it added.
But even without the backlogs, the 11,601 new Covid-19 cases still topped the previous record high of 10,016, which was reported last March 29.
Among the confirmed cases, 17 more patients have succumbed to the disease.
This brought the country’s total number of Covid-19 fatalities to 13,320 as of Friday, April 2, with a case fatality rate of 1.73 percent.
As to recoveries, the DOH said there are now a total of 604,368 Covid-19 recoveries, with 434 new survivors reported Friday.
The DOH said this means that 78.3 percent of the patients have been able to recover.
The active cases stood at 153,809 and this accounts for 19.9 percent of the confirmed infections in the country.
Of the active cases, 96.3 percent are considered mild, 2.4 percent are asymptomatic, 0.5 percent are in severe condition, 0.5 percent are critical, and 0.32 percent are moderate cases. (HDT/ LMY/ SunStar Philippines)