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| The official tally is now more than 40,000, but another report shows it's at least 52,000 |
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However, the Department of Health no longer posts the country’s
total confirmed cases on the same day. Yesterday, the total “positive tests”
was 52,188 out of 720,918 individuals tested, an increase of more than 2,000
from the previous day’s 50,077.
The DOH has said the positive cases in this other table are
unverified, and some cases could have been reported twice.
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| Yesterday's daily statistics show that the number of positive results had already reached 52,188 |
Today’s upsurge came a day after the DOH reported an an unusually low figure of 294 additional confirmed cases, which
it attributed to an adjustment in its data extraction process.
Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said Thursday’s
data covered only 19 hours, as the DOH adjusted the time it extracted data from
the Covid-Kaya system, the official data platform.
Vergeire said the objective of the change was to deliver
more “timely” data.
Of today’s record-breaking daily tally, 688 were classified
as “fresh” cases, meaning the results were made known to the patient within the
past three days, and 843 were “late” cases.
Six more people reportedly died from Covid-19, raising the
death toll to 1,280.
Recovered patients numbered 11,073 with a record 400
recoveries on a single day.
The department said the results were culled from 68 testing
laboratories around the country that tested 704,549 individuals.
The number of new cases today surpassed the previous biggest
daily tally of new confirmed cases on Jun 23, when 1,150 new patients were reported.
Of the newly reported cases, 413 were from the National Capital
Region and 301 from Region 7 or Central Visayas, which includes Cebu City
The government shifted its focus on curbing the coronavirus
pandemic on Cebu City
