DOH COVID-19 CASE BULLETIN #200

LOOK: DOH COVID-19 CASE BULLETIN #200

As of 4PM today, September 30, 2020, the Department of Health reports the total number of COVID-19 cases at 311,694, after 2,426 newly confirmed cases were added to the list of COVID-19 patients.

DOH likewise announces 585 recoveries. This brings the total number of recoveries to 253,488.

Note: Of the 2,426 reported cases today, 2,113 (87%) occurred within the recent 14 days (September 17 - September 30, 2020). The top regions with cases in the recent two weeks were NCR (746 or 35%), Region 4A (485 or 23%) and Region 10 (152 or 7%).

Of the 58 deaths, 42 occurred in September (72%), 12 in August (21%) and 4 in July (7%). Deaths were from NCR (20 or 34%), Region 6 (16 or 28%), Region 4A (8 or 14%), Region 11 (5 or 9%), Region 7 (3 or 5%), Region 9 (3 or 5%), Region 12 (2 or 3%), and Region 5 (1 or 2%).

35 duplicates were removed from the total case count. Of these, 13 recovered cases and 2 deaths have been removed.

Moreover, 14 cases previously tagged as recovered were reclassified to deaths after final validation.

All labs were able to submit their data to the COVID-19 Data Repository System (CDRS) on September 29, 2020.

These numbers undergo constant cleaning and validation.

@ DOH-PH

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