THE Philippines on Sunday recorded the highest number of patients who have recovered from Covid-19 since the pandemic began with 72,607 recoveries.
These recoveries were recorded under the Department of Health’s (DOH) “Oplan Recovery,” the time- based and symptom-based recovery strategies. It is an initiative that the DOH activated last year to monitor the status of confirmed Covid-19 deaths and recoveries.
Under Oplan Recovery, a patient is tagged as recovered when certain conditions are met even without repeat RT-PCR testing and is recommended by the Philippine College of Physicians, and the Philippine Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
It is characterized by enhanced data collection, validation, and reconciliation efforts between the DOH Central and Regional Offices, and the Local Government Units.
10,098 cases, 150 deaths
As of 4 p.m. of April 18, the DOH logged 10,098 new cases, bringing the total number of infections to 936,133. There were also 150 deaths recorded.
Of the total number of cases, 15.1 percent (141,089) are active cases, 83.2 percent (779,084) have recovered, 1.70 percent (15,960) have died.
Moreover, 48 cases previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation.
Seven laboratories were not able to submit their data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System on April 17, 2021.