Covid-19 deaths pass 34,000; cases top 20,000 for 2nd day

THE Department of Health on Saturday, September 4, 2021, reported over 20,000 new cases of coronavirus disease 2019 for the second day in a row as well as over 100 additional deaths that pushed the death toll past 34,000.

In its case bulletin, the DOH listed 20,741 new cases, 189 additional deaths and 21,962 new recoveries. The daily positivity rate and testing output reached new highs of 28 percent and 74,034 tests on September 2. Five laboratories were unable to submit their testing data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System on September 2.The additional deaths, which included 81 cases previously tagged as recoveries, raised the Covid-19 death toll to 34,062. The case fatality rate declined further to 1.65 percent.

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