DOH COVID-19 CASE BULLETIN #142 as of 4PM today, August 3

The Department of Health reports the total number of COVID-19 cases at 106,330.

A total of 3,226 confirmed cases are reported based on the total tests done by 66 out of 94 current operational labs.

DOH likewise announces 275 recoveries. This brings the total number of recoveries to 65,821.

Note:
With 3,226 additional cases reported today, 2,543 (79%) cases occurred within the recent 14 days (July 21 to August 3). The top regions with cases in the recent two weeks were NCR (1,267 or 50%), Region 4A (445 or 17%) and Region 7 (353 or 14%).

Of the 46 deaths, 37 (80%) in July, 6 (13%) in June, 2 (4%) in May and 1 (2%) in March. Deaths were from Region 7 (38 or 83%), NCR (3 or 7%), CAR (2 or 4%), Region 3 (1 or 2%), Region 4A (1 or 2%), and Region 6 (1 or 2%).

There were eighty-one (81) duplicates that were removed from the total case count. Of these, ten (10) recovered cases have been removed.

Moreover, we have updated the outcomes of two (2) cases. One (1) was previously reported as death but updated as recovered and one (1) case was previously reported as recovered but updated as death after final validation; these are already included in the count of new deaths and recoveries.

These numbers undergo constant cleaning and validation.