For three consecutive days, the Department of Health (DOH) has recorded over 20,000 new Covid-19 cases. The total number of infections in the country on Sunday stood at 2,080,984.
As 4 p.m. of September 5, 2021, a total of 20,019 additional cases, 20,089 recoveries, and 173 deaths were logged by the DOH.
Of the total number of infections, 7.6 percent (157,438) are active, 90.8 percent (1,889,312) have recovered, and 1.65 percent (34,234) have died.
There were 119 duplicates removed from the total case count. Of these, 95 are recoveries and 1 is a death.
Moreover, 58 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation.
All laboratories were operational on September 3, 2021 but 5 labs were not able to submit their data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System.
Based on data in the last 14 days, the 5 non-reporting labs contribute, on average, 0.9 percent of samples tested and 1.2 percent of positive individuals.