MANILA, August 9, 2021 – The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday reported local cases of the Delta coronavirus variant have been detected in 13 out of the 17 regions in the country., even as the country’s overall recovery count rose to 1.5 million.

The regions with Delta variant include the Ilocos Region, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, the Bicol Region, Central Visayas, Eastern Visayas, Western Visayas, the Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, the Davao Region, Calabarzon, the Cordillera Administrative Region and the National Capital Region (NCR).

DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said all 17 areas in the NCR have local Delta variant cases.

So far, the country has 450 Delta variant cases — 426 have recovered, 10 have died and 13 are active cases after revalidation and repeat RT-PCR conducted by local epidemiology and surveillance units.

“The outcome of one case is still being verified, 69 cases are returning overseas Filipinos (ROFs), 355 are local cases while 26 cases are still being verified as local or ROFs,” Vergeire said.

She added that 248 of the total cases are male and the cases belong to the less than 1-year-old to 84-year-old age group.

Thirty-five cases have received two doses of Covid-19 vaccine, 17 received one dose and 83 are unvaccinated.

The vaccination status of the 315 cases is still for verification. 

MORE RECOVERIES

Meanwhile, an additional 8,079 patients have beaten the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), pushing the country’s overall recovery count to 1,552,278 on Sunday.

The Department of Health (DOH), in its latest Covid-19 bulletin, said recoveries account for 93.6 percent of the total 1,658,916 infections since the start of the pandemic last year.

Another 9,671 new cases and 287 new deaths were also reported. These figures bring the overall tally of active cases to 77,516 and the death toll to 29,122.

The latest figures showed 93.2 percent of the active cases are mild, 2.8 percent are asymptomatic, 1.7 percent are severe, 1.20 percent are moderate, and 1 percent are in critical condition.

“There were 96 duplicates removed from the total case count as 92 of these are recoveries. Moreover, three cases previously tagged as recovered were reclassified as active cases and 149 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation,” it said.

DOH data on Aug. 8 likewise showed that 20.3 percent of 51,296 who were tested turned out positive for Covid-19.

All laboratories were operational on Aug. 6 and were able to submit their data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System.

“Daily case counts are affected by the output from the laboratories nationwide. The relatively low case counts today is due to lower laboratory output last Friday,” the DOH said. — Ma. Teresa Montemayor/PNA