MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) will announce “time-based” coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) recoveries under its “Oplan Recovery” program every Sunday, the agency’s spokesperson said Friday. Time-based recoveries are coronavirus patients released from isolation after a certain number of days of quarantine and after symptoms have disappeared. ADVERTISEMENT“Starting this Sunday, we are going to announce again this time-based recovered patients and every Sunday gagawin na natin ‘yan para hindi tayo na nagbu-bulk lagi ng announcement,” Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire told reporters. The DOH reported on July 30 a massive rise in recoveries of over 38,075. The steep rise in recoveries sparked doubts and drew questions from the public on how DOH handles critical COVID-19 data.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 14, 2020 04:15 UTC