AFTER four consecutive days of coronavirus disease 2019 cases exceeding 8,000, new infections fell below 7,000 on Tuesday, August 3, 2021, as nine laboratories failed to submit their testing output and one laboratory was non-operational.
Six regions have been flagged for posting faster two-week growth rates and average daily attack rates. These regions are now classified as high risk. At the national level, deaths are declining, but Vergeire said they have observed an evident increase in deaths in Central Luzon and Central Visayas.The six regions with rising cases and attack rates are the National Capital Region , Central Visayas, Ilocos, Cagayan Valley, Cordillera Administrative Region and Northern Mindanao.
Western Visayas also has a high attack rate of 7.17 per 100,000 population but new cases are slowing down as indicated by a negative TWGR. The case fatality rate remained at 1.75 percent. The additional deaths included 18 cases that were initially tagged as recoveries.Of the 63,137 active cases, 1.2 percent were critical, 2.1 percent were severe, 1.46 percent were moderate, 94 percent were mild and 1.3 percent were asymptomatic.
The University of the Philippines Philippine Genome Center has detected 216 Delta variant cases. Nine had died while 17 remained active cases as of Tuesday.
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