The Department of Health (DOH) said that the country's case fatality rate is decreasing despite the continued rise in the number of coronaviruses disease (COVID-19) cases.
“For now...we can see that the deaths here in the country are slowly going down. It is really decreasing. We have only 2.9 percent case fatality rate compared to when we started when it was more than 10 percent,” said Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire in a television interview on Tuesday, July 7.
Vergeire noted that they observed “great improvement in how cases are being managed.”
“We are seeing lesser deaths because we can see that clinicians now already have that much evidence and different information for them to be able to manage and support patients who are severe and critical and are being admitted in our hospitals. Also, we have to highlight the fact that most of our cases are mild cases,” she said.
The Philippines has a total of 46,333 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 1,303 deaths and 12,185 recoveries as of July 6.
She said that the public should be more “cautious” since the transmission of the virus in communities is evident.
This story is from the July 8, 2020 edition of Manila Bulletin.
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