THE Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday, September 8, 2021, reported less than 13,000 new cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the lowest in two weeks, as technical issues hounded the CovidKaya epidemiological surveillance system and prevented the extraction of updated data starting Tuesday, September 7.
Daily cases are projected to be higher in the next few days as the technical issues are resolved, the DOH said.
In its case bulletin Wednesday, the DOH reported 12,751 new cases, 174 additional deaths and 20,151 new recoveries.
The new infections brought the cumulative Covid-19 case count to 2,134,005, less 54 duplicates that were removed from the tally.
The positivity rate remained high at 28.1 percent out of the 57,260 samples tested on September 6. Five laboratories were unable to submit their testing output to the Covid-19 Document Repository System.
The additional mortalities, which included 80 cases reclassified from recoveries, raised the Covid-19 death toll to 34,672. The case fatality rate declined further to 1.62 percent.
Including the new recoveries, a total of 1,948,198 individuals have now overcome the infection.
The number of active cases also decreased, as recoveries far exceeded the daily case count Wednesday. There remained 151,135 active cases, of which 0.7 percent were critical, 1.5 percent were severe, 2.54 percent were moderate, 91.6 percent were mild and 3.7 percent were asymptomatic.
The new cases recorded on Wednesday were the lowest since the 12,067 cases on August 24, 2021.
The CovidKaya technical issues also delayed the release of the Covid-19 case bulletin by about two hours. (Marites Villamor-Ilano / SunStar Philippines)