Virus cases lowest in 2 weeks

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THE Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday, July 6, 2021, reported 4,114 new cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the lowest in the recent 14 days, as nine laboratories failed to submit their testing data.

The daily case count is traditionally low on Mondays and Tuesdays because it is based on testing output on Saturdays and Sundays, when some laboratories close for the weekend.

For the July 6 tally, only 31,536 samples that were tested for Sars-CoV-2 on July 4 were fed into the Covid-19 Document Repository System and 10.5 percent came back positive.

The new infections, which were the lowest since the 3,666 on June 22, brought the total Covid-19 case count in the country to 1,445,832. There were 28 duplicates, including 22 recoveries, that were removed from the tally.

Of the total, 49,613 remained active cases in hospitals and isolation facilities, including 38 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries.

The DOH also validated 63 other cases that were previously tagged as recoveries as mortalities, raising the death toll for Tuesday to 104.

As of Tuesday, 25,296 patients had died from Covid-19 in the Philippines. The case fatality rate remained at 1.75 percent.

There were 6,086 new recoveries, bringing the total to 1,370,923, or 94.8 percent of the total count. (Marites Villamor-Ilano / SunStar Philippines)

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