The Department of Health (DOH) logged a total of 1,974 additional Covid-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 2,811,248.
There were also 2,388 recoveries and 142 deaths.
Of the total number of cases, 1.0 percent (28,660) are active, 97.4 percent (2,737,722) have recovered, and 1.60 percent (44,866) have died. Thirty-seven duplicates were removed from the total case count. Of these, 33 are recoveries and a single death.
Moreover, 104 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation.
All laboratories were operational on November 9, 2021, but 2 labs were not able to submit their data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System.
Based on data in the last 14 days, the two non-reporting labs contribute, on average, 0.4 percent of samples tested and 0.3 percent of positive individuals.
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