The Department of Health (DOH) Situationer Report with data as of July 27 recorded 84 new COVID-19 cases confirmed among health care workers, bringing the total cases to 4,591 or 5.6% of the cases in the country.
There are 52 new active cases, bringing the total to 1,065. The total active cases represent 23% of the total COVID-19 cases among health workers, making 1 of 4 cases among health care frontliners still an active case.
Recoveries rose to 3,490, with 32 new recoveries recorded on July 27. Total recoveries represent 76% of the total infections among health workers.
There were no new deaths reported after July 22.
While the DOH reported 82,040 confirmed COVID-19 cases, the agency also reported 116,758 individuals who have tested positive. The difference between confirmed cases and positive cases were once referred as the agency’s validation backlogs, but the agency later clarified that this may not be so due to deduplication and validation. The DOH has not indicated that deduplication was made when necessary, affirming that the difference are not validation backlogs. The difference is at 34,718 as of July 27.
The DOH also indicated 10,248 testing backlogs as of July 27; this number is 1,235 lower than yesterday.
