DOH adds 102 COVID-19 deaths following data backlog

The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday reported an additional 102 deaths from COVID-19 following a data backlog.

This brings the nationwide death toll to 37,596.

“As the technical team continues to manually encode data on fatalities reported from previous days, further advisories will be issued,” the DOH said in a statement.

In an online briefing, DOH Epidemiology Bureau director Dr. Alethea De Guzman said the server of the COVIDKaya system went down from September 23 to 26, thus the delay in the encoding and validation process of deaths

She said the downtime was due to the limited server capacity of COVIDKaya to handle, receive, and process bulk data pushed from the COVID Document Repository System (CDRS).

The DOH reported 18,449 new COVID-19 infections on Monday, pushing the country's total case count to 2,509,177.

Of this number, 2,313,412 have recovered while 158,169 are active. —KG, GMA News