PH logs over 400,000 new COVID-19 cases this August

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PH records more than 400,000 new COVID19 cases in August 2021

On July 31, 2021, the country had 1,588,965 total confirmed COVID-19 cases, as announced then by the Department of Health. The Philippines logged its first confirmed COVID-19 case on Jan. 30 last year in a Chinese woman who arrived from Wuhan City, China where the disease is believed to have first emerged.

More than "70 percent of the current transmission is attributable to the Delta variant," said WHO country representative Dr. Rabindra Abeyasinghe in an online press conference. The Philippines' nine highest daily tallies of new COVID-19 cases were all reported in August, peaking on Aug. 30 with 22,366.22,366=August 3016,694=August 21In an interview on ABS-CBN's TeleRadyo earlier in the day, Prof. Jomar Rabajante of the UP Pandemic Response Team said the Philippines might tally up to 30,000 daily fresh cases until end of September and infections may peak in early October.

"Kailangan i-factor in din natin because this is the Delta variant... We are seeing that cases would still continue to come in until September po yan. Tsaka po natin makikita bumaba," she said.

 

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