THE Department of Health (DOH) reported Thursday, November 11, that the Philippines’s Covid-19 positivity rate remained below five percent, while the number of active infections further dropped to 28,660.

In its 4 p.m. Thursday bulletin, the DOH showed 4.9 percent positivity rate in the country, based on the 43,357 samples tested on November 9.

It reported 1,974 new cases that pushed the total caseload to 2,811,248.

The active cases went down to 28,660 (one percent) from Wednesday’s (November 10) 29,138. This is the lowest active infections in eight months or since February 22.

The number of patients who have recovered from Covid-19 climbed to 2,737,722, with 2,388 new recoveries Thursday. This is 97.4 percent of all cases.

The death toll also rose to 44,866 with 142 new mortalities, said the DOH. This means that 1.60 percent of those who contracted the virus have died.

Majority or 62.1 percent of the Covid-19 cases in the country, though, have been considered mild, 5.9 percent were asymptomatic, 17.15 percent were moderate, 10.4 percent were severe and 4.4 percent were critical.

The health department said two laboratories were unable to submit their output to the Covid-19 Document Repository System on November 9. These contributed to more or less 0.4 percent of all samples tested and 0.3 percent of the individuals who tested positive for coronavirus. (SunStar Philippines)