213 new COVID-19 cases were reported today, 64 new recoveries and 4 deaths

DOH released COVID-19 CASE BULLETIN #68 at 16:00H (4:00PM PST) on May 21, 2020.

Today, the Department of Health reports 213 new cases of COVID-19 in the Philippines and that makes up our total number of cases to 13,434. We’ve got lower number of deaths today at 4 though and that a good thing, the country now has death toll of 846.

The number of recoveries is surprisingly low today as well with a reported 68 new recoveries which peg our total recorded recoveries to exactly 3,000.

From what I’ve heard in the news this morning, the backlogs that the DOH accredited testing centers around the country is experiencing at the moment is one of the reasons why the trend of new cases are somewhere between 200 and 300 cases a day. If that’s the case then, and if only DOH could coupe up with the high surgency of test request, these numbers might be more than we currently thought.

COVID-19 was declared by World Health Organization (WHO) as a Pandemic on March 03, 2020 which started in Wuhan, China. The disease is caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome – coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) with a Flu like symptoms such as Fever, Cough, Colds and in more severe cases Difficulty in Breathing.

There are no vaccines or direct cure for the disease at the moment and the only way to protect ourselves from getting infected is to practise proper and frequent handwashing, avoid touching our face, mouth, nose and eyes. Our health experts as well as the government urged everyone to wear a suitable and effective face mask as much as possible and when outside of our homes.