MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) reports that the total number of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases is now at 283,460 as of 4:00 p.m. Saturday, September 19, 2020.
This, after 3,962 newly-confirmed cases were added to the list.
The DOH likewise announced 1,128 recoveries, bringing the total number of recoveries to 209,885.
The health department’s latest bulletin showed that of the 3,962 reported cases today, 3,286 (83%) occurred within the recent 14 days (September 6 – September 19, 2020).
The top regions with cases in the recent two weeks were the NCR with 1,199 (36%), Region 4A with 780 (24%) and Region 3 with 446 (14%).
Of the 100 deaths, 66 occurred in September (66%), 16 in August (16%) 7 in July (7%) 4 in June (4%) and 7 in April (7%).
Twenty-seven (27) duplicates were removed from the total case count. Of these, 15 were recovered cases, the report added. Another patient who recovered was verified to be a foreign national and was also removed from the total case count.
On the other hand, 17 cases which were previously tagged as recovered were reclassified as deaths after final validation.
The department further reported that 10 laboratories were not able to submit their data to the COVID-19 Data Repository System (CDRS) on September 18, 2020. These laboratories are:
- Daniel O. Mercado Medical Center
- Dr. Jorge P. Royeca Hospital
- Kaiser Medical Center Inc.
- Lanao del Norte Covid-19 Testing Laboratory
- Las Piñas General Hospital and Satellite Trauma Center (GX)
- Las Piñas General Hospital and Satellite Trauma Center (RT-PCR)
- Research Institute for Tropical Medicine
- Safeguard DNA Diagnostics
- Taguig City Molecular Laboratory
- Valenzuela Hope Molecular Laboratory
The DOH said the numbers they receive undergo constant cleaning and validation. — /mbmf
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