THE daily Covid-19 positivity rate in the Philippines continued to decrease, with the Department of Health (DOH) reporting 4.3 percent on Wednesday, November 10, the lowest since January 24, 2021.
Testing output improved to 35,772 from Tuesday’s (November 9) 30,716, but the DOH said seven laboratories were unable to submit their output to the Covid-19 Document Repository System.
Of the tests performed, 2,646 new cases were added to the tally, bringing the total caseload to 2,809,311, as of 4 p.m. Wednesday, November 10.
Of this more than 2.8 million Covid-19 cases in the country, 29,138 or one percent have remained active.
The total number of patients who have recovered from the disease also climbed to 2,735,508, with 4,029 additional recoveries reported by the DOH. This was 97.4 percent of the country’s cases.
The death toll rose to 44,665 with 99 mortalities logged in the last 24 hours. This means that 1.59 percent of those who contracted the virus have died.
Majority or 60.8 percent of the coronavirus infections have been tagged as mild cases, 17.36 percent were moderate, seven percent were asymptomatic, 10.4 percent were severe and 4.4 percent were critical.
The DOH continued to call on the public to further bring down the country’s Covid-19 cases by practicing the minimum health standards, such as wearing of face mask and observing social distancing, as well as by submitting themselves to vaccination.
The government targets to vaccination 70 percent of the country’s eligible population by the end of 2021. (SunStar Philippines)