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COVID-19 cases in PH top 1.7 million as 12,439 new infections logged

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Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News

<h3>New cases is PH&#x27;s 4th highest daily tally since start of pandemic</h3><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Residents line up for the government’s cash aid at the Baseco Evacuation Center in Tondo, Manila on the first day of its distribution, August 11, 2021. George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News" src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/tvpatrol/08/12/20210811-baseco-ayuda-rollout-gc-vu2a1503.jpg"/><figcaption>Residents line up for the government’s cash aid at the Baseco Evacuation Center in Tondo, Manila on the first day of its distribution, August 11, 2021. <em>George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA<strong> (UPDATE)</strong> - The Philippines on Thursday added 12,439 more COVID-19 cases, its new highest in more than 4 months, bringing the total virus infections in the country to over 1.7 million.</p><p>This is the second straight day that additional cases counted over 12,000, data showed. The day&#x27;s tally is the highest since April 10, according to the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group. </p><p>ABS-CBN Data Analytics head Edson Guido noted that the day&#x27;s fresh cases is the 4th highest daily tally since the COVID-19 pandemic reached the country in January last year.</p><p>The country now has 1,700,363 total confirmed coronavirus infections, of which 87,663 or 5.2 percent are active, the highest since April 23, according to the research unit.</p><p>For the second straight day, the number of those still battling the respiratory disease exceeded 80,000, data showed.</p><p>The number of active cases in previous days has been adjusted for duplicates.</p><p>Of the active cases, 95.3 percent are mild and 1.2 percent are asymptomatic. Those critical account for 0.9 percent, while 1.5 percent are severe and 1.08 percent are moderately ill.</p><p>Based on the latest bulletin, the positivity rate is at 22.5 percent, the highest since April 2, the ABS-CBN Data Analytics team pointed out. This is based on the test results of 57,016 individuals on Tuesday. </p><p>COVID-related fatalities, meanwhile, rose to 29,539 with 165 additional deaths. </p><p>The day&#x27;s deaths included 85 cases first tagged as recoveries, the DOH said. </p><p>Recoveries also increased by 6,090 to 1,583,161. The total number of recuperations accounts for 93.1 percent of the country&#x27;s cumulative total cases.</p><p>A total of 116 duplicates, 108 of which are recoveries, have been excluded from the case tally. </p><p>Three cases first classified as recoveries turned out to be active cases, the DOH said.</p><p>Two laboratories failed to submit data on time.</p><p>The intensive care unit (ICU) utilization rate in Metro Manila is at 68 percent, while it is at 69 percent nationwide.</p><p>Guido said the ICU utilization rates are considered near high-risk. </p><p>This comes as the DOH also announced 177 additional COVID-19 Delta variant carriers, which is at least 60 percent more virulent than the original strain first detected in Wuhan, China in late 2019. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/12/21/ph-adds-177-new-covid-19-delta-variant-cases">DOH confirms 177 more COVID-19 Delta variant cases; majority recovered</a></li></ul><p>Philippine authorities are ramping up their COVID-19 vaccination program to halt the spread of new infections, most especially in the capital region, home to around 13.5 million people. </p><p>Metro Manila is under enhanced community quarantine until Aug. 20. </p><p>As of Wednesday, the government has so far administered 26.12 million vaccine doses, of which 14.10 million are first shots. </p><p>More than 12 million people are already fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/12/21/ph-adds-177-new-covid-19-delta-variant-cases">DOH confirms 177 more COVID-19 Delta variant cases; majority recovered</a></li></ul><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1746311" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><div class="infogram-embed" data-id="_/XwlOyN6W2yUc4AnE9xPq" data-title="COVID-19 cases - 1" data-type="interactive"> </div><script type="text/javascript">!function(e,i,n,s){var t='InfogramEmbeds',d=e.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];if(window[t]&&window[t].initialized)window[t].process&&window[t].process();else if(!e.getElementById(n)){var o=e.createElement('script');o.async=1,o.id=n,o.src='https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed-loader-min.js',d.parentNode.insertBefore(o,d)}}(document,0,'infogram-async');</script>

This is the second straight day that new cases counted over 12,000, data showed. The day's tally is also the highest since April 10, according to the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group. 

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COVID-19 cases in PH top 1.7 million as 12,439 new infections logged

Job Manahan,

ABS-CBN News

Published Aug 12, 2021 04:22 PM PHT

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Updated Aug 12, 2021 09:44 PM PHT

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