DOH released a public announcement.
The Department of Health (DOH) on Sunday officially released a public announcement regarding the COVID-19 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries and later verified as active cases or fatalities.
This, as the Department of Health posted a public announcement on its official Facebook page wherein the department wanted to clarify the concerns regarding the cases that were previously tagged as “recoveries” and later verified to have “died” or “still active”.
In the said announcement, the Department of Health shared the process that the department used for tagging recoveries in order to help the public and the media understand it. The said process, the Department of Health added, had sometimes been a “source of confusion”.
According to the Department of Health, the process entailed sending the list of patients who were eligible for time-based tagging.
The said list, according to the Department of Health, was then sent to the regional epidemiological surveillance units (RESUs) and local government units (LGUs) who would check it against their own records and remove from the said list those patients who had either “died” or “became critical”.
In addition, the Department of Health said that RESUs and LGUs then send the updated list back to DOH in order to record it in the national tally.
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The Department of Health said that the said process was done “on a weekly basis”.
Moreover, the DOH said that while the department would like to report data that was as “complete” and as “accurate” as possible, the department was reliant on what was being submitted to them and there would be instances wherein their RESUs, LGUs, and health facilities — upon further validation — corrected their own initially-reported coronavirus recoveries and re-tagged those patients as deaths.
Nonetheless, the DOH said that the department continued to strive in order for them to keep the public and the media updated with the most accurate national tally available at the moment.
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