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| A total of 3,954 new cases were recorded today, taking the country's total tally past China's official record (CNN Phl graphic) |
The Philippines
The new cases brought the country’s overall tally to
89,374, with 1,983 deaths.
The surge in cases came hours before President Rodrigo
Duterte is expected to announce the new
quarantine status for virus hotspots Metro Manila and Cebu City
The Philippines
now has more Covid-19 cases than the 84,165 cases reported by China Philippines ’ 108 million population is barely 1%
of China
The Department of Health has attributed the surge in
cases to its enhanced testing capability and data reconciliation effort.
Its latest published data show that a total of 1.36
million individuals, or about 1.2% of the population, has so far been tested. These tests yielded a total of 126,484 positive cases,
for a positivity rate of 9.3%.
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| Separate data from DoH show that the total positive cases in the country is now 126,484 |
However, DoH has always maintained that this other
figure of positive infections have yet to be validated because of duplications.
Also according to DoH, a record 38,075 patients were
discharged from hospitals today, for a total recovery figure of 65,064.
With this, the total number of active cases, or
those still ill from the coronavirus disease, is now at 22,327.
The DoH said that patients who are
asymptomatic or have mild symptoms, and whose onset of illness or specimen
collection was more than 14 days ago, shall be tagged as recovered.
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This is reportedly the protocol followed by the United States ’ and European
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, as well as by India
“Current recovery policies now show that at the 10th day of
the illness, the risk of transmitting the virus to other people is
significantly reduced,” the department said in a statement.
This deviates from the practice in Hong
Kong , however, where a patient is listed as recovered after testing
negative for the virus after repeated tests.
Positive cases, whether asymptomatic or not, are immediately
taken in for isolation and treated until they return a negative test result.
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This is because local studies have shown that some
asymptomatic patients have a high viral load, meaning they are highly
contagious, even if they have never shown signs of being sick themselves.
