COVID 19 update August 16, 2020:
TOTAL CASES: 161, 253.
Total NEW CASES: 3, 420 based on the total tests done by 99 out of 105 current operational labs.
NEW DEATHS: 65
NEW RECOVERIES: 40,397 recoveries. This brings the total number of recoveries to 112,586.
Note:
Of the 3, 420 reported cases today, 2, 745 (80%) occurred within the recent 14 days (August 3 – 16, 2020). The top regions with cases in the recent two weeks were NCR (1, 594 or 58%), Region 4A (619 or 23%) and Region 7 (86 or 3%).
Of the 65 deaths, 29 (45%) in August, 29 (45%) in July and 7 (11%) in June. Deaths were from NCR (46 or 71%), Region 7 (13 or 20%), Region 4A (3 or 5%), Region 3 (1 or 2%),Region 5 (1 or 2%), and Region 11 (1 or 2%).
Of the 40, 397 total new recoveries, 914 were based on what was reported while 39, 483 were time-based recoveries.
There were eighty-five (85) duplicates that were removed from the total case count. Of these, five (5) recovered cases have been removed. Moreover, there were fifteen (15) cases that were previously reported as recovered but after final validation, they were deaths (12) and active (3) cases. (Marou Sarne – DWIZ)
(Source: Department of Health (Philippines) Facebook page)
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