WHILE the threat of Delta variant looms, the Philippines has recorded over 8,000 Covid-19 cases for three straight days.
On Sunday, the Department of Health (DOH) reported 8,735 additional cases with 5,930 recoveries and 127 deaths. The total Covid-19 cases in the country stood at 1,597,689
Of the total number of infections, 4 percent (63,646) are active, 94.3 percent (1,506,027) have recovered, and 1.75 percent (28,016) have died.
The DOH said that 11 duplicates were removed from the total case count. Of these, 8 are recoveries.
Moreover, 9 cases previously tagged as recoveries have been validated to be active cases and 75 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation.
Two laboratories were not operational on July 30, 2021 but four laboratories were not able to submit their data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System.
Based on data in the last 14 days, the four non-reporting and two non-operating labs contribute, on average, 1.8 percent of samples tested and 1.3 percent of positive individuals.