According to [ABS-CBN News], the Philippines on Saturday recorded 8,147 more COVID-19 cases, with active ones reaching more than 60,000, data from the health department showed.
This was the second straight day that new cases counted more than 8,000, and the first time that it happened in 3 months, ABS-CBN Data Analytics head Edson Guido said.
The country raised its total to 1,588,965 cases, of which 60,887, or 3.8 percent are still active infections, according to the latest bulletin. Of the 54,857 people who screened for the virus on Thursday, 14.7 percent tested positive.
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COVID-19 cases update as of July 31, 2021. (Photo / Rretrieved from Philippine National Police)
Guido noted that this is the 4th straight day that the positivity rate was more than 14 percent. There were also 167 new deaths, raising the country's death toll to 27,889. The case fatality rate is at 1.76 percent.
New deaths surpassed 100 for a 3rd straight day, data showed and newly reported fatalities on Saturday included 102 cases first tagged as recoveries, the DOH said.
Recoveries increased by 9,117, pushing the total to 1,500,189, accounting for 94.4 percent of the cumulative total.
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According to [ABS-CBN News], the intensive care unit (ICU) bed capacity in Metro Manila is at 52 percent, while this is higher nationwide at 59 percent, according to the bulletin.
