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PH records 1,910 new COVID-19 cases; 11 labs fail to submit results

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Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/news/10/14/20201008-edsa-rerouting-commuters-jc-68.jpg"/><figcaption>Commuters walk to Quezon Avenue in Quezon City and the nearest EDSA Busway station to catch their ride to Manila and Monumento (in Caloocan City) on Oct. 8, 2020. <em>Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News​</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA <strong>(UDPATE)</strong> — The Philippines&#x27; coronavirus tally climbed by 1,910 to 346,536 on Wednesday, the second straight day that additional daily confirmed infections were below 2,000.</p><p>This is the lowest daily increase since Sept. 22, according to ABS-CBN Data Analytics.</p><p>Wednesday&#x27;s newly-announced cases, of which 624 are from the National Capital Region (NCR), do not include results from 11 testing laboratories that failed to submit their data on time.</p><p>Majority or 86% of the new cases occurred in the last 2 weeks.</p><p>Except for Oct. 12, Oct. 4 and Sept. 28, the Philippines has been logging less than 3,000 cases a day in the last 3 weeks, although there were some days when more than a dozen laboratories were unable to submit their data.</p><p>The Department of Health also reported 579 additional recovered patients and 78 new COVID-related deaths, 64 or which happened in this month.</p><p>With a total of 293,860 recoveries and 6,449 fatalities, the country&#x27;s active cases stood at 46,227.</p><p>A total of 87 cases, of which 85 were tagged as recovered, were removed from the official tally after being identified as duplicates.</p><p>There were also 17 cases first tagged as recovered but were found out to be deaths.</p><p>Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire on Wednesday morning said that while NCR still has a lot of cases, they are seeing the numbers to be stabilizing and slowly decreasing.</p><p>“We were able to decongest already [our health system],” she said, referring to lower occupancy rates of hospitals.</p><p>The OCTA Research Group, composed of professors from the University of the Philippines and University of Santo Tomas, estimates that COVID-19 cases in the Philippines will reach 380,000 to 410,000 by the end of October.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xOQv0ip7_28?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></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><p>This week, the group recommended that stricter quarantine measures be enforced in certain areas in the country with higher “attack rates”, or percentages of the population recently infected with COVID-19.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/13/20/octa-group-notes-covid-19-decline-but-seeks-stricter-quarantine-in-areas-with-spike-in-cases">READ: OCTA group notes COVID-19 decline but seeks stricter quarantine in areas with spike in cases</a></li></ul><p>Since the start of the pandemic, 38.1 million people have been infected by the COVID-19 virus, according to the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) coronavirus dashboard. Of those, 1,086,315 have died and almost 26.5 million have recovered.</p><p>Currently, the Philippines is the 18th country with the most number of cumulative COVID-19 cases, based on the JHU tally. But ABS-CBN Data Analytics Head Edson Guido said Indonesia might overtake the country on Thursday in terms of total cases.</p><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>

<p>The Philippines' coronavirus tally climbed by 1,910 to 346,536 on Wednesday, the second straight day that additional daily confirmed infections were below 2,000.</p>

The Philippines' coronavirus tally climbed by 1,910 to 346,536 on Wednesday, the second straight day that additional daily confirmed infections were below 2,000.

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PH records 1,910 new COVID-19 cases; 11 labs fail to submit results

Kristine Sabillo,

ABS-CBN News

Published October 14, 2020 04:00 PM PHT

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Updated October 14, 2020 04:52 PM PHT

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