DOH removes over 4,000 ‘duplicate cases’ from COVID19 tally; 309 ‘recoveries’ turned out to be deaths
MANILA — The Department of Health has removed 4,396 cases from its official COVID-19 tally in a span of more than two months, according to DOH data analyzed by the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group .
The number increased further in August, with removals ranging from 75 a day to as high as 443. From Aug. 1 to Aug. 21, the number of cases removed averaged 124 per day.Meanwhile, the ABS-CBN IRG monitored a total of 1,332 recoveries removed from the DOH tally. Two ended up being negative of the new coronavirus, 51 were found to be still infected, and 309 were found to be already dead. The remaining 970 were among the duplicate cases removed from the total.
However, it did not explain how it ended up announcing as recovered those who already died when it earlier assured that there are safeguards in place to check the status of COVID-19 patients.
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