The country now has 10,004 cases, recoveries at 1,506 and deaths number to 658. The Department of Health (DOH) also reported the number of health workers infected with COVID-19 is at 1,859. With these numbers, health workers infection rate is at 18.6% – or one out of five COVID-19 cases in the country is a health worker.
Forty new COVID-19 infections among health workers recorded on May 5 brought the total number to 1,859.
Of these cases, DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said 1,445 are considered active cases. Nine are severe cases, 1,000 are mild cases while 436 infected show no symptoms while 380 have recovered. Of the COVID-19 cases among health workers, 34 have died; 25 of them were doctors.
