8,702 reported Covid cases February 3, 2022

Of the 8,702 reported cases today, 8,463 (97%) occurred within the recent 14 days (January 21 - February 3, 2022). The top regions with cases in the recent two weeks were Region 6 (1,039 or 12%), Region 7 (799 or 9%) and Region 11 (785 or 9%).

*Of the 71 deaths, 66 occurred in January 2022 (93%), 2 in October 2021 (3%), 1 in September 2021 (1%), 1 in June 2021 (1%), and 1 in April 2021 (1%) due to late encoding of death information to COVIDKaya. This issue is currently being coordinated with the Epidemiology and Surveillance Units to ensure information is up to date.*

539 duplicates were removed from the total case count. Of these, 207 are recoveries.

Moreover, 29 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation.

*All labs were operational on February 1, 2022. However 5 labs were not able to submit their data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System (CDRS). Based on data in the last 14 days, the 5 labs contribute, on average, 5.7% of samples tested and 4.9% of positive individuals.*