DOH logs 665 new COVID-19 cases today, the lowest this year

THE Department of Health (DOH) on Monday recorded only 665 new COVID-19 cases in the country, the lowest number recorded so far this year and the lowest since July of last year.

The lowest number of daily COVID-19 caseload recorded was in July 14, 2020 with only 634 new cases.

The DOH COVID-19 Case Bulletin issued today, November 29, 2021, noted that there are now a total of 2,832,375 COVID-19 cases in the country.

Of this total, only 0.6 percent, or 16,289, are active cases. Active cases or patients are those undergoing treatment in government hospitals and temporary quarantine facilities.

Among the active cases, 48.1 percent are considered mild, 23.82 percent are moderate cases, 15.6 percent are severe cases, 6.6 percent are critical, and 6.0 percent are asymptomatic.

There were also 993 patients who recovered from COVID-19. Overall, there are now 2,767,585 total COVID-19 recoveries in the country, about 97.7 percent of the total cases.

The DOH also logged 141 deaths today, lower than the 156 recorded yesterday to bring the total COVID-19 deaths to 48,501, or about 1.71 percent of total cases.

Positivity rate today, meanwhile, slid further to 2.1 percent based on 32,639 people who were tested.

There were also 10 duplicates that were removed from the total case count, wherein eight are recoveries and one is a death.

Also, 87 cases were found to have tested negative and were removed from the total case count. These 87 cases are recoveries.

There were also 129 cases tagged earlier as recoveries but were reclassified as deaths upon final validation.

Two laboratories were not operational on November 27, 2021 while three laboratories were not able to submit their data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System (CDRS). Based on data in the last 14 days, the five labs contribute, on average, 0.3 percent of samples tested and 0.5 percent of positive individuals.

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