DOH reports 356 new Covid-19 cases, lowest in 17 months

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THE Philippines’ coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases continued to decline with the Department of Health (DOH) recording 356 additional infections...

THE Philippines’ coronavirus disease cases continued to decline with the Department of Health recording 356 additional infections on Tuesday, December 7, the lowest since July 2020.The DOH said the new cases account for 1.4 percent of the 24,360 samples tested on December 5.

The health department also recorded 871 new recoveries that pushed the total number of patients who have recovered from Covid-19 to 2,772,728 or 97.8 percent of all confirmed infections.The DOH clarified, however, that of the 92 reported deaths, only three occurred in December 2021, while 18 percent occurred in November 2021 due to late encoding of death information to its surveillance system CovidKaya.

It added that two laboratories were not operational while six others were not able to submit data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System last December 5.

 

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