The province of Negros Occidental has a total of 89 new cases of COVID-19, a report from the regional Department of Health said.
In Bacolod, the health department recorded a total of 19 new cases.
At the national level, as of 4PM today, October 23, 2020, the DoH reports the total number of COVID-19 cases at 365,799, after 1,923 newly-confirmed cases were added to the list of COVID-19 patients.
DOH likewise announces 424 recoveries. This brings the total number of recoveries to 312,691.
Of the 1,923 reported cases today, 1,745 (91%) occurred within the recent 14 days (October 10 – October 23, 2020). The top regions with cases in the recent two weeks were NCR (428 or 25%), Region 4A (302 or 17%) and Region 6 (209 or 12%).
Of the 132 deaths, 76 occurred in October (58%), 30 in September (23%) 9 in August (7%) 14 in July (11%) 1 in June (1%) and 2 in April (2%). Deaths were from NCR (47 or 36%), Region 3 (33 or 25%), Region 4A (23 or 17%), Region 6 (10 or 8%), Region 7 (8 or 6%), Region 5 (3 or 2%), CARAGA (2 or 2%), Region 1 (1 or 1%), Region 11 (1 or 1%), Region 12 (1 or 1%), BARMM (1 or 1%), CAR (1 or 1%), and ROF (1 or 1%).
