After the country's cases soared past the 85,000 mark, the government has adjusted the method of classifying people who have recovered from the coronavirus illness. The Inter-Agency Task Force for Management of Infectious Diseases (IATF) has
After the country’s cases soared past the 85,000 mark, the government has adjusted the method of classifying people who have recovered from the coronavirus illness.
“Time-based reckoning of recoveries of mild and asymptomatic patients who have completed 14 days of isolation from the date of onset of illness or specimen collection shall be immediately implemented,” the resolution read. “Counting 14-day isolation for mild and asymptomatic confirmed cases shall start from date onset of illness or specimen collection,” the resolution read.
The same IATF resolution noted that there are a total of 3,954 new cases of coronavirus in the country on Thursday.
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