THE Covid-19 cases in the Philippines reached the 2-million mark on Wednesday after the Department of Health (DOH) logged 14,216 additional cases.
As of 4 p.m. of September 1, the total number of infections in the country stood at 2,003, 955. There were also 18,754 recoveries and 86 deaths.
“The relatively low number of cases today [September 1] is due to lower laboratory output last Monday [August 30],” the DOH said.
Of the total number of infections, 7.0 percent (140,949) are active cases, 91.3 percent (1,829,473) have recovered, and 1.67 percent (33,533) have died. There were 118 duplicates removed from the total case count. Of these, 91 are recoveries and 1 is a death.
Moreover, 37 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation.
All laboratories were operational on August 30, 2021 but 5 laboratories were not able to submit their data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System.
Based on data in the last 14 days, the five non-reporting laboratories contribute, on average, 0.8 percent of samples tested and 0.8 percent of positive individuals.
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