Epidemiology of Covid-19 in the Philippines
Abstract
On 7 March 2020, the Philippines announced the local transmission of COVID-19. I described the characteristics and epidemiological time-to-event distributions for laboratory-confirmed cases in the Philippines recorded as of 29 December 2020. The average age of 472,298 cases was 38.15 years, with 45.3% being female and 44.3% living in the National Capital Region. The age group of 30-39 years old has the highest number of total confirmed cases with the total of 111,384. The age group of 90-99 has the lowest record of confirmed cases with the total of 745. The total active cases as of 29 December 2020 is 22,746 (4.8%), 9,124 (1.94%) died, and 438,780 (93%) are total number of recovered patients. Asymptomatic patients were 2,361 (10.4%) out of 22,746 active cases; 142 (0.62%) patients were pregnant. The average age of dead patients was 62.21 years, and the average age of recovered patients was 37.52 years. The average time between confirmation of Sars-Cov2 and recovery was 11.99 days.
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