MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) on March 20, Saturday, recorded another all-time high single-day tally of 7,999 new COVID-19 cases for the Philippines, bringing the total to 656,056 cases, of which 80,642 are active cases.
The DOH’s record of new COVID-19 cases for Saturday is currently the highest the country has ever seen since the pandemic started. The new count topped 7,103 infections recorded on Friday, March 19.
The new all-time high record was also in spite of six laboratories not able to submit their data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System (CDRS) on March 19.
Of the new cases, 94.4 percent are mild, 3.1 percent are asymptomatic, 0.9 percent…
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