8,127 new Covid cases and 196 new deaths reported in PH today

An additional 4,343 patients have beaten the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), pushing the country’s overall recovery count to 1,532,494 today, August 5, 2021.

The Department of Health (DOH), in its latest Covid-19 bulletin, said recoveries account for 94.1 percent of the total 1,627,816 infections since the start of the pandemic last year.

Another 8,127 new cases and 196 new deaths were also reported. These figures bring the overall tally of active cases to 66,895 and the death toll to 28,427.

The latest figures showed 94.6 percent of the active cases are mild, 1 percent are asymptomatic, 1.9 percent are severe, 1.30 percent are moderate, and 1.1 percent are in critical condition.

“There were 135 duplicates removed from the total case count as 125 of these are recoveries. Moreover, 15 cases previously tagged as recovered were reclassified as deaths after final validation,” it said.

DOH data from its Aug. 3 records meanwhile showed that 17.3 percent of 56,035 who were tested turned out positive for Covid-19.
One laboratory was not operational on Aug. 3 and 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 three non-reporting laboratories contribute, on average, 0.7 percent of samples tested and 1.8 percent of positive individuals.

To date, 60 percent of 3,700 intensive care unit beds, 53 percent of 19,600 isolation beds, 53 percent of 12,600 ward beds, and 41 percent of 2,900 ventilators dedicated to patients with Covid-19 are in use nationwide.

Meanwhile, 58 percent of 1,100 intensive care unit beds, 52 percent of 4,600 isolation beds, 50 percent of 3,600 ward beds, and 41 percent of 1,000 ventilators reserved for patients with Covid-19 are being used in Metro Manila.* (PNA)