DOH: Case fatality rate lower even with 3-fold increase in cases

THE Department of Health on Wednesday, September 22, reported a decrease in the 2021 case fatality rate among coronavirus disease cases despite infections rising by three fold.

The DOH, meanwhile, recorded a total case count of 472,205 at the end of 2020 versus a total of 1,929,711 from January 1 to September 21, 2021, which accounts to a 309 percent increase in cases this year compared to last year. “The decrease shown in the national case fatality rate was multifactorial. One of the factors that the Department is considering is the overall improvement of the country’s healthcare system over the past year and its ability to cope with the higher demand for clinical assessment, referral, and management of cases,” said DOH spokesperson Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire.

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