One day after the reimposition of an Enhanced Community Quarantine, the Department of Health (DOH) reported the breach of the 9,000-plus mark for the third straight day, according to the agency’s latest bulletin released today.
In Case Bulletin #379, the numbers again almost reached 10,000 with a 9,475 single-day count of new COVID-19 cases today, with the total number of active cases now at a 105,568 total.
This brings the overall confirmed number of COVID-19 cases to 721,892.
Recoveries, however, was recorded at 22,000 to bring total recoveries to 603,154, while 11 people died to bring the total COVID-19 deaths to 13,170.
Of all the cases, about 98.1 percent are either mild (95.5 percent) or asymptomatic (2.5 percent).
Active cases are treated at hospitals and other facilities, where the rise in COVID-19 cases means it will go to full capacity. This is why the DOH, together with the rest of the government, continues to call on the public to strictly follow minimum public health standards (MPHS) and to suspend non-essential travel and ensure strict adherence to existing safety protocols.
The public is called on to wear their masks properly, and to observe other preventive strategies, AT ALL TIMES and IN ALL SETTINGS—even at home—in order to help reduce transmission.
The DOH continues to emphasize that the number one objective right now is to ensure care is not hampered nor delayed for COVID and non-COVID patients. To do this, hospitals should not get overwhelmed so everyone must act with extreme vigilance and help reduce transmission by consistently adhering to preventive measures, as well as following quarantine and isolation protocols during the ECQ period.