(SunStar) FOR the second consecutive day, over 100 cases tagged as recoveries were validated as mortalities, sending the daily death toll closer to 200.

In its case bulletin Thursday, July 8, 2021, the Department of Health (DOH) reported 191 additional deaths, 5,484 new cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) and 3,925 new recoveries.

The additional deaths, which were the highest since the 196 reported on June 11, included 152 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries, higher than the 123 cases reclassified as deaths a day earlier.

These raised the Covid-19 death toll in the country to 25,650. The case fatality rate remained at 1.76 percent.

The new infections brought the total case count in the country to 1,455,585. Nine duplicates, including six recoveries, were removed from the tally.

Testing output improved on July 6 to 49,926 as all laboratories were able to submit their data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System. The daily positivity rate remained high at 11.3 percent, although it has stayed below 12 percent for the 10 day in a row.

Of the total cases, 3.4 percent or 49,036 were active cases in hospitals and isolation facilities.

Meanwhile, a total of 1,380,899, or 94.9 percent of the cumulative cases, have now recovered from infection.