MANILA, Philippines— The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday announced that it has already cleared its backlog of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) test results for validation. Rosario Vergeire said the health department can now validate and report new cases submitted within a day. An analysis by an investigative group from ABS-CBN showed a total of 4,377 duplicate cases were taken out from the COVID-19 data from June to August. Because we are now able to better clean our data since we’ve started creating this data management unit in the DOH,” she explained. The Philippines has so far recorded 189,601 COVID-19 cases with 2,998 deaths and 131,367 recoveries.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 24, 2020 01:30 UTC