The Department of Health (DOH) logged the second -highest number of Covid-19 cases in a day since the pandemic began at 16,694, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 1, 824,051 on Saturday.

There were also 15,805 recoveries and 398 deaths recorded.

Of the total number of cases, 6.8 percent (123,935) are active, 91.5 percent (1,668,520) have recovered, 1.73 percent (31,596) have died.

The DOH said that 443 duplicates were removed from the total case count. Of these, 426 are recoveries.

Moreover, 211 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation.

All laboratories were operational on August 19, 2021 but 4 were not able to submit their data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System.

Based on data in the last 14 days, the 4 non-reporting labs contribute, on average, 2.7 percent of samples tested and 4.2 percent of positive individuals.

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