Covid-19 cases hit 2M in Philippines

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The DOH on Wednesday, September 1, reported 14,216 new cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), bringing the cumulative case count to 2,003,955.

Coronavirus infections in the Philippines breached 2.0 million on Wednesday, September 1, 2021, around 19 months after the first case was confirmed in Metro Manila.

The cases are usually lower on Tuesdays and Wednesdays because of lower testing output on Sundays and Mondays. The additional deaths, which included 37 cases reclassified from recoveries, raised the death toll to 33,533. The case fatality rate retreated further to 1.67 percent.As there were more recoveries than new cases, the number of active cases declined to 140,949.

The first Covid-19 case in the Philippines was confirmed on January 30, 2020. Local transmission was declared on March 7, 2020, after a 62-year-old Filipino male who did have any travel history got infected and subsequently infected his wife.

 

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