Covid-19 cases stay below 10,000

MANILA. A health worker wearing a protective suit pushes a Covid-19 patient to an isolation tent outside a hospital in Manila on Monday, April 26, 2021. (AP)
MANILA. A health worker wearing a protective suit pushes a Covid-19 patient to an isolation tent outside a hospital in Manila on Monday, April 26, 2021. (AP)

THE Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday, April 29, 2021, reported less than 10,000 new coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases in a day for the 11th consecutive day.

Deaths from Covid-19, however, exceeded 100 for the fifth day in the last seven days.

In its case bulletin Thursday, DOH reported 8,276 new infections, increasing the cumulative case count to 1,028,738.

The 114 additional mortalities brought the death toll to 17,145, or 1.67 percent of the total case count.

There were 6,636 new recoveries based on the time-based tagging strategy which declares as recoveries those mild and asymptomatic cases who have had no symptoms for at least 10 consecutive days.

As of April 29, total recoveries reached 942,239.

With new infections exceeding the recoveries despite the time-based tagging strategy, the number of active cases went up to 69,354, or 6.7 percent of the total case count.

DOH Secretary Francisco Duque III, in a report to President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, April 28, said cases were on a downtrend but the average daily attack rate in the National Capital Region (NCR) remained high at 31 per 100,000 population.

The NCR has the highest number of infections in the country, followed by Calabarzon and Central Luzon.

Duque also said they were monitoring Zamboanga Peninsula, Western Visayas and Cagayan Valley, where the two-week growth rate in Covid-19 cases and the average daily attack rate per 100,000 population remained high.

Duque also said that although the healthcare at ICU utilization rates improved in the NCR, these two indicators remained high in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Cagayan Valley and Calabarzon. (Marites Villamor-Ilano / SunStar Philippines)

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