The rising number of daily Covid-19 cases logged by the Department of Health (DOH) has breached the 1-million mark on Monday.
As of 4 p.m. of April 26, the DOH logged 8,929 additional cases, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 1,006,428.
The DOH also recorded 11,333 recoveries and 70 deaths.
Of the total number of cases, 7.4 percent (74,623) are active, 90.9 percent (914,952) have recovered, and 1.67 percent (16,853) have died.
Moreover, 27 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation.
Two laboratories were not operational on April 24, 2021, while nine labs were not able to submit their data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System.
No ‘artificial decline’
Meanwhile, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire agreed with the statement of the OCTA Research Group that they are seeing a decline in the number of infections and that it is no longer an “artificial decline.”
Vergeire explained that there was a decrease in the seven-day average of cases “as compared to before.”
From over 10,800, Vergeire said that the seven-day moving average in cases is at 9,500, “so the decline is not artificial.”
However, she warned that “almost” all cities of Metro Manila are still at risk and that there is no room for complacency.
“The average daily attack rate of almost all local government units in Metro Manila is still high. They are still at 19 to 55 number of cases per 100,000 population every day,” she said Filipino.
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