DOH released COVID-19 CASE BULLETIN #51 at 16:00H (4:00PM PST) on May 04, 2020.
The Department of Health (DOH) has tweaked their daily case bulletin banner with breakdowns specifically for the hard hit areas by COVID-19 in the country.
As of 4:00 PM today, the DOH have reported 262 new cases of COVID-19 in the country where 122 of them comes from the NCR, 88 from Region 7 and the remaining 52 from other regions in the country. Together with the new reported cases yields a total of 9,485 confirmed cases in the Philippines.
The DOH also reported 101 new recoveries making it as one of the highest number of recoveries recorded in a day and this totals to 1,315.
Our current death toll is now at 623 after 16 new deaths were recorded for the past 24 hours.
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.
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