Department of Health just release the latest COVID-19 update for the Philippines;
DOH COVID-19 CASE BULLETIN #222
As of 4PM today, October 22, 2020, the Department of Health reports the total number of COVID-19 cases at 363,888, after 1,664 newly-confirmed cases were added to the list of COVID-19 patients.
DOH likewise announces 843 recoveries. This brings the total number of recoveries to 312,333.
Note: Of the 1,664 reported cases today, 1,526 (92%) occurred within the recent 14 days (October 9 – October 22, 2020). The top regions with cases in the recent two weeks were NCR (438 or 29%), Region 4A (235 or 15%) and Region 6 (170 or 11%).
Of the 38 deaths, 25 occurred in October (66%), 9 in September (24%) 1 in August (3%) 1 in July (3%) 1 in June (3%) and 1 in May (3%). Deaths were from NCR (11 or 29%), Region 4A (8 or 21%), Region 11 (7 or 18%), Region 6 (6 or 16%), Region 7 (3 or 8%), Region 12 (2 or 5%), and Region 2 (1 or 3%).
19 duplicates were removed from the total case count. Of these, 5 recovered cases and 2 deaths have been removed.
Moreover, 11 cases previously tagged as recovered were reclassified as deaths.
9 labs were not able to submit their data to the COVID-19 Data Repository System (CDRS) on October 21, 2020.These numbers undergo constant cleaning and validation.
Worldwide, we now have 41,281,842 confirmed cases, with 1,132,169 deaths. So far 28,144,949 have recovered from the virus and 296,886 new cases reported today.
