DOH released COVID-19 CASE BULLETIN #31 at 16:00H (4:00PM PST) on April 14, 2020.
Our COVID-19 cases in the country is in an uptrend situation given that the Department of Health now has more testing centers available and the number of testing kits are readily available for suspected patients. Now the health agency have recorded 291 new cases and that totals to 5,223 confirmed COVID-19 cases.
From these figures, we now move past the 5000 mark and with that we also have 20 new mortalities recorded since yesterday and that also increased our death toll to 335.
The good news is that, while those above numbers were increasing, we also have recorded another milestone of patient recoveries with 53 new recoveries. This number gave us a recorded total number of recoveries in the country to 295.
From the total number of new cases in the Philippines, the Cebu City Health Department at 2:00PM today announced 6 new cases in the city with 5 of which are from Barangay Luz and 1 in Barangay Labangon.
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 strongly suggests that we wear face masks as much as possible.
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