Philippines enters top 20 countries with most

coronavirus cases
OCT 1, 2020 8:27 PM PHT

PIA RANADA

MANILA, PHILIPPINES-The Southeast Asian country is now close to surpassing Italy in the global tally of cases on Thursday, October 1, the Philippines entered the list
of 20 countries with the most number of coronavirus cases worldwide.

This is after the Department of Health (DOH) reported 2,415 new cases, bringing the country's total to 314,079. The list can be seen in the Worldometers site and
the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center.

With the addition, the Philippines beat out Pakistan, which at the 21st spot, has 312,806 coronavirus cases. The Philippines is now just one slot below Italy which has
314,861 cases. It's possible for the Southeast Asian country to surpass it in a few days, if not hours.

The Philippines already has the most COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia.

Globally, the United States is still the most coronavirus-hit nation, reporting 7.5 million cases, followed by India with 6.3 million cases, Brazil with 4.8 million cases,
and Russia in 4th place with 1.2 million cases.

New figures

On Thursday, the Philippines' death toll also grew with 59 new fatalities. It is now at 5,562.

Metro Manila continues to be the source of most of the new cases, with 930 reported Thursday. This was followed by Cavite (238 cases), Rizal (128 cases), Laguna
(123 cases), and Negros Occidental (103 cases).

Despite the high tally, the government highlighted that out of the over 314,000 cases, only 17% or 54,294 are active cases.

More people continue to recover from the disease. On Thursday, 771 new recoveries were reported, bringing the total to 254,223.

While COVID-19 cases continue to rise, the Duterte administration has pointed to promising trends in the pandemic in the country.

Researches from the Octa Group have said the reproduction number, or number of people one positive case can infect, has stayed below 1 for some weeks in Metro
Manila.

"On August 14, we reached more or less 4,000 new cases in NCR (National Capital Region). Now, our new cases in NCR have lowered to 1,200. The other day, we were
so happy because the new cases in NCR were only 502. The R0 (R naught) and positive [rate] also went down," said National Action Plan vs COVID-19 chief
implementer Carlito Galvez Jr on Thursday.

Despite the promising recent figures, the Octa Group has cautioned against complacency, saying that the trend still must be sustained for longer for the country to
say it has reined in the outbreak.

Continued observance of mask-wearing, physical distancing, restrictions on gatherings, and the like are still necessary until an effective vaccine is given to a significant
portion of the population. – Rappler.com

2,291 new COVID-19 cases push

Philippines' tally over 324,000
Published October 5, 2020 4:01pm
By JULIA MARI ORNEDO, GMA News

The Philippines’ coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) tally leapt to 324,762 on Monday after the Department of Health (DOH)
announced 2,291 new infections.

Metro Manila still logged the highest number of newly reported cases at 825, followed by Batangas with 140, Laguna with 128, Rizal
with 114, and Cavite with 102.

Eighty-seven percent or 1,992 of the newly reported cases caught COVID-19 in the past 14 days.

The DOH said 17 laboratories failed to submit reports on time.

Total recoveries also rose to 273,123 after 87 more patients recovered from the respiratory illness, while the death toll climbed to
5,840 with 64 new fatalities.

“Moreover, 25 cases previously tagged as recovered were reclassified as deaths after final validation,” the DOH added.
The remaining 45,799 are active cases undergoing treatment or quarantine, 85.6 percent of which are mild, 9.2 percent are
asymptomatic, 1.6 percent are severe, and 3.6 percent are in critical condition.

As of October 4, 46 percent of COVID-19 intensive care unit beds nationwide were occupied and 22 percent of mechanical ventilators
were in use.

Health Secretary Francisco Duque III earlier said that the government was not targeting zero new COVID-19 cases but only a lower
number of infections, admitting that “this virus is gonna stay with us. Let us not deceive ourselves.” 

Meanwhile, the government’s inter-agency COVID-19 task force backed the further reopening of the economy amid the pandemic. —
LDF, GMA News

DFA: 4 more Filipinos abroad

infected with COVID-19, total now
at 10,390
By: Darryl John Esguerra - Reporter / @DJEsguerraINQ
INQUIRER.net / 07:32 PM September 20, 2020

MANILA, Philippines — The total number of Filipinos abroad who have contracted the coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) has reached 10,390 on Sunday after the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported four
new cases.

The new cases were recorded from the Asia Pacific region, the DFA said.

Meanwhile, no new recoveries and COVID-19 deaths among overseas Filipinos were reported on Sunday, leaving their respective
totals at 6,594 and 777, respectively.

Of the total cases, only 3,019 are active cases and are currently being treated.

The majority of the active cases or 2,326 are in the Middle East/Africa, 332 are in the Asia Pacific, 195 are in Europe, and 166 are in
the Americas.
The Middle East/Africa region also has the highest number of deaths among Filipinos abroad at 496, followed by the Americas at 178,
Europe with 95 while only eight came from the Asia Pacific Region
Globally, the respiratory disease has so far infected over 30 million people.
As of Sunday, the Philippines has a total of 286,743 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 229,865 recoveries and 4,984 deaths.