THE Philippines' coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) statistics are back to the April 2021 level, when the country hit a second peak with an average of more than 10,000 infections a day.
On Sunday, August 8, 2021, new infections fell below 10,000 but the number of people who died and those who tested positive swelled to their highest levels in about four months.
In its case bulletin Sunday, the Department of Health (DOH) reported 9,671 new infections, fewer than the previous day's 11,021, as the tests conducted also decreased to 51,296 on August 6 although all laboratories were able to submit their data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System.
But there were 287 deaths, highest since the 401 recorded on April 9, and the positivity rate went up to 20.3 percent, highest since the 20.7 percent on April 10.
The 10,623 cases reported on August 6 and the 11,021 on August 7 were the highest since April 17. The new infections on Sunday were the highest since April 18.
These brought the cumulative Covid-19 case count to 1,658,916 nationwide. There were 96 duplicates, including 92 recoveries, that were removed from the tally.
Of the total, 77,516 were active cases in hospitals and isolation facilities, including three cases that were previously tagged as recoveries. This is the highest number of active cases since April 24.
The additional deaths, which included 149 cases reclassified from recoveries, raised the Covid-19 death toll to 29,122. The case fatality rate increased to 1.76 percent.
There were 8,079 new recoveries, which brought the total to 1,552,278.
Of the active cases as of August 6, 1.0 percent were critical, 1.7 percent were severe, 1.2 percent were moderate, 93.2 percent were mild and 2.8 percent were asymptomatic.
Globally, the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus tracker showed that over 4.28 million had died out of 202.3 million infected with Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. (Marites Villamor-Ilano / SunStar Philippines)