The amount of supported coronavirus disorder 2019 (COVID-19) sufferers at the Philippines increased to 33 on Tuesday since the Department of Health (DOH) listed nine new circumstances.
The DOH needed to backtrack on its newest statistics after announcing earlier in the afternoon 11 new confirmed cases.
DOH Assistant Secretary Dr. Maria Rosario S. Vergeire reported both other instances involved replicate evaluations bearing samples that were positive.
“Upon confirmation, DOH reported that two of those newest positive samples obtained by the Epidemiology Bureau are replicate tests on samples obtained from patients 8 and 7,” she clarified.
Vergeire stated they chose to launch an updated tally following a company on the COVID-19 instances in the nation.
“We want to apologize for this… There was this specific article coming in the health crisis meeting… wherein they originally reported that the 35 cases,” she explained. “It was likely to be DOH initially issuing these sorts of numbers”
Vergeire stated the 13 instances, written of those nine cases listed on four declared by President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night and Tuesday, are declared at the following associations:
- Dr. Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital for Patient 21 (58-year-old female)
- Cardinal Santos Medical Center for Patients 22 (51-year-old female) and 23 (30-year-old feminine )
- Lung Center of the Philippines for Patient 24 (52-year-old male)
- New Clark City quarantine centre for Patients 25 (31-year-old male) and 26 (34-year-old male), who are equally repatriates in the coronavirus-hit Diamond Princess cruise boat.