Amid renewed calls for data management transparency, DOH says new tally revision part of 'validation process'

over the weekend clarified that the revision in the number of COVID-19 cases is part of the validation process following renewed concerns on data manipulation online., data from the DOH analyzed by ABS-CBN’s Investigative and Research Group showed that the health agency corrected a total of 4,377 duplicates from June 12 to August 21 and tagging of 309 recoveries which turned out to be deaths.Data validation and cleaningMa.

explained that the duplicates found and corrections after are part of their data validation and cleaning processes. “These 4,000 cases that were found to be duplicated, this is a result of our validation process. This was not a one-time reporting. This happened in a span of two months. Because we are now able to better clean our data since we’ve started creating this data management unit in the DOH,” sheVergeire also trumpeted DOH’s success to finally address its problem in data backlogs, which were tested samples that have not been processed yet.

“For now, if you would see, we do not have any validation backlog anymore because within 24 hours of the data being submitted to us, we immediately validate and we are able to bring it out and report it at once the following day,” Vergeire said.the numbers of infections as “fresh” or newly validated cases and “late” or those from delayed reporting.

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