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PH records 3,218 new COVID-19 cases; positivity rate down to 7.6 pct

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Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="People flock to the Dapitan Arcade in Quezon City to purchase Christmas decorations on October 19, 2021 days after the capital region was put under COVID-19 Alert Level 3 which allows for the opening of more business establishments. The alert system currently in place in Metro Manila will be expanded to several areas from Oct. 20, according to Malacañang as authorities look to open up more business around the country adversely affected by the pandemic. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/news/10/20/20211019-covid-christmas-decor-dapitan-arcade-jc-9.jpg?ext=.jpg"/><figcaption>People flock to the Dapitan Arcade in Quezon City to purchase Christmas decorations on October 19, 2021 days after the capital region was put under COVID-19 Alert Level 3 which allows for the opening of more business establishments. The alert system currently in place in Metro Manila will be expanded to several areas from Oct. 20, according to Malacañang as authorities look to open up more business around the country adversely affected by the pandemic. <em>Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA<strong> (UPDATE) </strong>- The Philippines on Wednesday announced 3,218 new COVID-19 cases, the third straight day it fell below 5,000, raising the country&#x27;s total to 2,768,849, data from the health department showed.</p><p>The number of fresh infections is also the lowest in more than five months, or since May 23 when the Department of Health announced 3,083 new cases, the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group said.</p><p>Of the cumulative total cases, 50,152 or 1.8 percent were active, the DOH said in its latest bulletin. This is the lowest in nearly 3 months, or since July 29 when 49,529 active cases were recorded following removal of duplicate cases, the ABS-CBN IRG added.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="ABS-CBN Data Analytics Team" src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/news/10/27/20211027-covid-cases.jpg"/><figcaption><em>ABS-CBN Data Analytics Team</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>The country&#x27;s virus positivity rate was at 7.6 percent, based on test results of samples from 41,049 individuals on Oct. 25, Monday. It is the lowest since March 1, according to ABS-CBN Data Analytics Head Edson Guido.</p><p>Meanwhile, COVID-related deaths increased by 271, pushing the total to 42,348. The figure is the highest in 5 days, or since Oct. 22 when the DOH logged 283 fatalities, according to ABS-CBN IRG.</p><p>There were also 6,660 more recoveries, bringing the total number of recuperations to 2,676,349. This is the lowest in 5 days, or since Oct. 22 when the DOH recorded 4,748 recoveries, data from ABS-CBN IRG showed.</p><p>Forty-one duplicates were removed from the total case count, including 37 recoveries, the DOH said. It added that 227 cases previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation.</p><p>A laboratory, which contribute on average 0.06 percent of samples tested and 0.07 percent of positive cases, was unable to submit their data, the DOH said.</p><p>The intensive care unit (ICU) bed utilization rate in Metro Manila and all over the country was at 42 percent and 51 percent, respectively. </p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1809703" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>The government has so far fully vaccinated some 26.2 million people, while 30.6 million others have received an initial dose. It aims to inoculate up to 77 million to achieve herd immunity against the respiratory illness and safely reopen the economy.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/26/21/only-50-pct-of-population-may-be-fully-vaccinated-against-covid-this-year">Fully vaccinating 70 pct of population may be achieved only in early 2022: ofc&#x27;l</a></li></ul><p>The wide vaccination coverage has caused the decline in new infections in the country, said the OCTA research group, which bases its analysis on data from DOH, even as cases of new variants have been detected.</p><p>More tourist destinations will no longer require confirmatory swab tests or RT-PCR tests from travelers as they reach 100 percent vaccination rate, Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said.</p><p>These include <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/25/21/baguio-city-bukas-na-sa-mga-fully-vaccinated-na-turista">Baguio</a>, Iloilo City, Negros Occidental, and <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/26/21/negros-oriental-to-scrap-swab-tests-for-entry">Negros Oriental</a>, among others.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/video/news/10/26/21/rt-pcr-test-sa-ilang-tourist-spot-aalisin-para-sa-bakunado">Mga bakunadong turista di na kailangan ng RT-PCR test sa ilang lugar</a></li></ul><p>The Philippines on Nov. 3 will expand its pediatric vaccination to include all children aged 12 to 17 nationwide, the DOH said.</p><p>So far, 18,666 children with comorbidities have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in Metro Manila as of Tuesday, nearly 2 weeks after the program was launched.</p><p>The World Health Organization&#x27;s emergency committee said Tuesday that the COVID-19 crisis is far from over, as it called for research into next-generation vaccines for long-term control of the pandemic.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/10/27/21/who-pandemic-far-from-over-despite-vaccine-progress">WHO: Pandemic ‘far from over’ despite vaccine, virus-analysis progress</a></li></ul><div><strong>- with report from Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div class="infogram-embed" data-id="_/XwlOyN6W2yUc4AnE9xPq" data-title="COVID-19 cases - 1" data-type="interactive"> </div><div><script type="text/javascript">!function(e,i,n,s){var t='InfogramEmbeds',d=e.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];if(window[t]&&window[t].initialized)window[t].process&&window[t].process();else if(!e.getElementById(n)){var o=e.createElement('script');o.async=1,o.id=n,o.src='https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed-loader-min.js',d.parentNode.insertBefore(o,d)}}(document,0,'infogram-async');</script></div>

The Philippines on Wednesday announced 3,218 new COVID-19 cases, the third straight day it fell below 5,000, raising the country's total to 2,768,849, data from DOH showed.

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PH records 3,218 new COVID-19 cases; positivity rate down to 7.6 pct

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Published Oct 27, 2021 04:19 PM PHT

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