Dissecting Data: The road to 1 million COVID19 cases in the Philippines
Total COVID-19 cases grew by over 300,000 in just one month this year. The total breached 700,000 on March 26 before hitting 1,006,428 total cases on April 26, making April the worst month yet for the Philippine outbreak.
The highest COVID-19 fatality rate for 2021 was recorded in February at 2.16 percent. The total number of dead back then was 12,068. The total number of cases was at 559,288. After that grim milestone, the Philippine Health Department decided to change the way it reports COVID-19 recoveries. Usually, the DOH had only reported thousands of recoveries every Sunday. It was called OPLAN Recovery and this resulted in a crooked line graph for active cases which made it impossible to discern any clear trend from the data. This was not done in any other country outside the Philippines.
The reporting of confirmed COVID-19 cases meanwhile has been done daily from the get go. The data has some problems of its own, such as the continued failure of some testing laboratories to submit their reports in a timely manner. But this data set has been much more consistent than the DOH’s reporting of recoveries.
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