DOH announces highest single-day record of COVID-19 cases with 4,963 confirmed cases on Saturday, August 1, 2020. This brings the total number of cases to 98,232.

The Department of Health (DOH) provides the latest information on the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) situation in the country, including the actions undertaken by the department in addressing the pandemic, through a ‘Virtual Presser’ on August 1, 2020. 

According to DOH, “Of the 4,963 additional cases reported today, 4,841 (98%) occurred in July and 3,981 (80%) cases occurred within the recent 14 days (July 19 to August 1). The top regions with cases within the recent 14 days were NCR (2,087 or 52%), Region 4A (959 or 24%) and Region 7 (223 or 6%).

Of the 17 deaths, 13 (76%) in July and 4 (24%) in June. Deaths were from NCR (5 or 29%), Region 4A (5 or 29%), Region 7 (4 or 24%), Region 1 (2 or 12%), and Region 9 (1 or 6%).

There were eighty-five (85) duplicates that were removed from the total case count. Of these, six (6) recovered cases and one (1) death have been removed.

These numbers undergo constant cleaning and validation.