With 253 cases, Bacolod is city with most COVID cases in PH
Sep 05 2020
Disclaimer: Whatever is written here is based on information released by the Department of Health at the time of publication. Whatever changes the DoH makes in their data later on…well that’s a different story in itself and as they say in their disclaimer: “the total cases reported may be subject to change as these numbers undergo constant cleaning and validation.”]
Less cases today than yesterday is good news. Of course, we will not see it continue to go down daily, but the trend is we are seeing less cases on a 7-day average.
Today the Health Agency reports 2,529 newly announced cases from 92 of 113 laboratories. Of the announced cases today, 2,145 are recent (84.8 percent) while the rest are ‘backlogs’.
NCR owned 1,171 of the cases for the day, with Negros Occidental coming in second with 197 cases. [Bacolod City took a beating yesterday, having the most number of cases on a city/municipality level, having cases higher than any city in Mega Manila.]
Thirty-one cases were deleted from the case count.
Of the 2,529 announced cases today, 2,145 cases were from August 23-September 5, 2020 based on reporting by the DoH using the ‘date of onset of illness’.
Of the 1,171 cases reported for NCR today, 968 are recent (83 percent) while the rest are backlogs.
If you look closely at the infographic table provided by the Health Agency, almost 20 percent of the data are cases that extend all the way back to March. Note below that 228 cases still come from the period August 1-22 (where more than 90 percent have probably recovered already) and 126 in the month of July (where all of them most likely already had an outcome).
Top five regions (including data from backlog) were: NCR, CALABARZON, Western Visayas, Central Luzon and Eastern Visayas.
In spite of the 1,136 recoveries, the recovery rate still dipped to 68.9 percent. Lower than the global recovery rate. The case fatality rate is up at 1.62 percent with 53 deaths reported today.
NCR had 32 deaths (60 percent) followed by Central Luzon with 6.
Of the 53 deaths, 21 occurred in September (it’s only September 5 today so this is a surprise for early reporting and scary because that’s a lot of deaths in the first five days of the month alone).
Eighteen were from August, 12 occurred in July, one in June and one way back in April and reported only today.
With 115 testing facilities, the DoH reports 2,589,840 individuals tested as of September 4, 2020. This is around 2.35 percent of the total population.
THE DATA YESTERDAY
Testing capacity
As of September 3, 2020, a total of 2,569,742 individuals (~2.32 percent of the population) have been tested.
There were 2,942 positives from 29,179 individuals tested – bringing the daily positive down to 10.1 percent from a previous day of 10.5 percent. [Notice that the increase in number of positive individuals will be reflected 1-2 days later from the Health Agency’s 4 o’clock habit daily COVID-19 bulletin.] The cumulative positivity rate is stable at 10.6 percent.
Of the 2,942 positives that day, 71 percent (2,091) were from only 34 of 40 testing centers in the NCR.
The summary
As of yesterday, the Philippines had 232,072 confirmed cases with NCR owning 55.8 percent of the total cases in the country.
NCR had 1,797 newly announced cases (not necessarily all recent) making up 48.4 percent of the total cases yesterday.
Regions IVA, VI, III and VIII rounded up the top five.
All the other remaining regions had only double digits, including Region VIII, which is fifth in the top five regions.
There were 14 newly announced cases among repatriates.
The unknowns
While there were no cases with no tagged location on a regional level, there were still 36 cases (0.97 percent) with no tagged location from various levels. For example, there were 5 cases with no known province – four from Region IVA and one from Bicol. The rest had no tagged location on a city/municipality level.
The known
NCR had 1,797 newly announced cases (1,488 of which were recent).
Nine cities had triple digits, with Quezon City and Manila reporting more than 200 cases. Makati, Parañaque, Pasay, Valenzuela, Caloocan, Taguig and Marikina had more than 100 cases but less than 200.
The remaining cities had less than 100 cases.
Pasig, Las Piñas and Muntinlupa had more than 50 cases while the cities of Malabon, Mandaluyong and Navotas had double digits with less than 50 cases.
The city of San Juan reported 7 cases and Pateros had ZERO case.
There were five individuals with no tagged location.
The following provinces had the highest cases in their respective region: Batangas for Region IVA, Negros Occidental for Region VI, Bulacan for Region III and Leyte for Region VIII.
There were 829 new cases for Region IVA yesterday with the provinces of Batangas, Laguna, Cavite and Rizal back on top with three digits.
Twenty two cities/municipalities reported double digits with the city of Calamba (73 cases) and Cabuyao (50 cases) leading the region.
The province of Negros Occidental led with a shocking 390 cases (87.4 percent) for Western Visayas.
Spotlight of the day was Bacolod City, which had 253 cases. On a city/municipality level, not only did it have the most cases in the region or in the province, but the whole country.
The number of cases from Bacolod City alone surpassed any city in Mega Manila.
Region III was back in the top five with the province of Bulacan leading the haul.
On a city/municipality level, San Jose del Monte (in Bulacan) and Angeles City (in Pampanga) had 23 cases apiece.
Region VIII had 86 cases and landed fifth among the top five. On the city/municipality level, the city of Catbalogan had the most cases followed by Alangalang and Tacloban City.
As of yesterday, the 7-day average of new cases and new deaths was lower at 3,226 cases/day and 58 deaths/day, respectively.
