PH records 205 new COVID-19 deaths — DOH

📆 11/20/2021 12:23 PM
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DOH on Saturday recorded 205 new COVID-19 deaths, bringing the total number of fatalities in the country to 46,903. | JEMendozaINQ

There are 2,565 new recoveries to bring the total number of COVID-19 recoveries to 2,755,526, or 97.6 percent of all cases.“In addition, 170 cases were found to have tested negative and have been removed from the total case count. Of these, 169 are recoveries. Moreover, 169 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation,” the DOH said.

The DOH said the current positivity rate is only at 3.2 percent, well within the World Health Organization’s ideal positivity rate of 5 percent. Meanwhile, the global infection now stands at 256.7 million including 5.1 million deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University Case Tracker.

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