ONLY 849 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday were reported, the lowest for the entire year, due to low testing output during the weekend, according to the Department of Health (DOH).
“The 849 new cases reported today are largely due to the weekly dip of testing output due to weekend encoding of positive cases to [COVID-19 Document Repository System],” said the agency in a note to reporters. “Last Sunday showed the lowest testing output this week.”
It’s the lowest daily case count since December 28 last year, when over 700 new infections were listed.
The nationwide tally is now 2,819,341, of which 0.9% or 25,464 are active or currently sick patients.
At least 59.1% of active cases have mild symptoms, 18.61% are in moderate condition, 11.5% have severe symptoms, 5.9% are asymptomatic and 4.9% are in critical condition.
The death toll increased to 45,808 – which is 1.62% of the case total – after 99 more people lost their lives.
Meanwhile, 2,393 others got better, raising the recovery count to 2,748,069 or 97.5% of the COVID-19 count.
The DOH said it reclassified 83 survivors into deaths after validation, and deleted 19 duplicate cases, including 18 recoveries.
Six laboratories failed to submit their reports on time and were excluded from the count. These laboratories contributed an average of 0.8% of tested samples and 0.7% of positive individuals in the last 14 days.
