THE Department of Health (DOH) reported more recoveries than new cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) for the fifth consecutive day on Wednesday, June 9, 2021, leading to a decline in the number of active cases.
As of June 9, DOH listed 54,000 active cases in hospitals and isolation facilities. These constituted 4.2 percent of the 1,286,217 total count.
The DOH case bulletin reported 5,462 new infections, lesser than the 7,854 recoveries.
The total recoveries increased to 1,210,027, or 94.1 percent of the total case count.
The daily death toll, however, exceeded 100 again after two straight days of below 100 mortalities per day.
There were 126 mortalities on Wednesday, including 70 that were previously tagged as recoveries.
These raised the Covid-19 death toll in the Philippines to 22,190. The case fatality rate went up to 1.73 percent.
The positivity rate declined to 12.6 percent, but this remained high since the World Health Organization benchmark for the reopening of an economy is only 5.0 percent.
The testing output improved slightly to 39,788 on June 7. Eight laboratories failed to submit their output to the Covid-19 Document Repository System.
Meanwhile, DOH Director Napoleon Arevalo said the number of fully vaccinated individuals increased to 1.68 million as of 6 p.m. of June 8.
A total of 6.3 million doses have been administered to 4,632,826 individuals, including the 1,681,722 who have also received their second dose.
Of the 1.68 fully vaccinated individuals, 886,420 are health workers (A1), 415,540 are senior citizens (A2), 373,493 are persons with comorbidities (A3) and 6,269 are workers under priority group A4. (Marites Villamor-Ilano / SunStar Philippines)