COVID-19 Recoveries climbs to 862 today after a record of 70 new recoveries were added today

DOH released COVID-19 CASE BULLETIN #43 at 16:00H (4:00PM PST) on April 26, 2020.

With the latest figures from Department of Health’s daily case bulletin, the agency have recorded 285 new COVID-19 cases today with a total of 7,579 confirmed cases in the country. This is after more mass testing is being done in the country that breaks the recent succeeding low reported cases.

We have the most number of recoveries ever at 70 which now has a total of 862 confirmed recoveries. But despite the good news, we still have deaths recorded as it breached the 500 mark after 7 new deaths were included in the tally.

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.