Detected COVID-19 cases continue to go up although hospital admissions remain at low risk, the Department of Health said. | dpazzibuganINQ /PDI
The confined patients comprised around 34 percent of 8,626 individuals still infected with the virus as of March 26.
This brought the country’s official COVID-19 death toll to 66,342 out of about four million confirmed cases since the pandemic began three years ago. The last time COVID-19 cases in the country rose above 300 was on Jan. 22, when 399 new cases were recorded.Infectious diseases expert Dr. Rontgene Solante, however, told the Inquirer that the sudden increase was “most likely a backlog” and not a cause for alarm.
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