PH tallies 4,842 new COVID-19 cases

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 12) — The country recorded 4,842 new COVID-19 infections on Wednesday, bringing the tally to 1,118,359, the Department of Health reported.

Five laboratories failed to submit data on time, the department said. The lower case turnout, it added, was due to lower testing output of laboratories.

The DOH daily case bulletin said 4.8% or 53,214 of the cases were active or currently ill. At least 93% of the active cases have mild symptoms, 2.4% have no symptoms, 1.9% have severe symptoms, 1.4% are critical and 1.23% are moderate.

The death toll climbed to 18,714, or 1.67% of total cases, after 94 more patients lost their lives to the disease. Meanwhile, 8,312 others got better, pushing the recovery number to 1,046,431 or 93.6% of the tally.

The DOH said it reclassified 35 cases of recovery as deaths after validation and deleted 30 duplicates, including 21 survivors.

The daily positivity rate, or the proportion of infected patients to all those tested, rose slightly from 11.2% on May 9 to 12.5% based on 33,529 tests done as of May 10. The recommended rate of the World Health Organization is below 5% since a high percentage means high transmission and more undetected cases.

Among Filipinos abroad, two more cases were detected, bringing the total to 18,571, the Department of Foreign Affairs reported. One also died while no new recoveries were tallied. The death toll is now 1,161 and the survivor count remained at 11.366, the DFA said.