THE Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday, September 11, 2021, reported over 26,000 new cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), setting a new peak in daily case counts.
In its case bulletin, the DOH listed 26,303 new cases, 79 additional mortalities and 16,013 recoveries.
The new cases included 1,608 cases that should have been country on September 10, reducing the September 11 case count to 24,695, still the highest daily tally since the pandemic started.
The new infections brought the cumulative case count to 2,206,021.
The DOH said, however, that there may still be delays in the inclusion of some cases, deaths and recoveries in the daily count.
The agency said some data in the Covid-19 Document Repository System (CDRS) still have not been forwarded to the CovidKaya, from which the technical team extracts data for verification and inclusion in the case bulletins.
These data “remain unavailable for extraction” despite the resolution of technical issues in the CDRS, the DOH said.
“The DICT (Department of Information Communications and Technology) is continuing their investigation,” the DOH said.
“While we await full resolution of this issue, we may observe some delays in inclusion of some data in our topline numbers in the coming days, but we are managing this by generating data from CDRS and submitted line lists by our disease reporting units,” it added.
In Saturday’s case bulletin, two laboratories were unable to submit their testing output to the CDRS on September 9. The positivity rate remained high at 27.6 percent out of 75,688 samples tested for Sars-CoV-2.
The number of active cases climbed further to 185,706, now accounting for 8.4 percent of the cumulative case count, but these were still below the April 2021 peak.
The additional 79 deaths included 32 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries. These raised the Covid-19 death toll in the country to 34,978. The case fatality rate retreated further to 1.59 percent.
The total recoveries increased to 1,985,337, including the new recoveries.
Of the active cases, 0.6 percent were critical, 1.3 percent were severe, 2.56 percent were moderate, 85.3 percent were mild and 10.2 percent were asymptomatic.
Covid-19 cases in the Philippines have been rising since mid-July, coinciding with the detection of cases with the Delta variant, the most contagious among the Sars-CoV-2 variants of concern.
The Delta variant has been detected in all 17 regions in the country. As of September 3, 2,068 Delta cases have been detected, with 46 deaths, 1,962 recoveries and 51 active cases.
Other variants being transmitted in the Philippines are the Alpha and Beta variants as well as the P.3, which emerged first in Central Visayas. (Marites Villamor-Ilano with HDT / SunStar Philippines)