MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) reported 3,972 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, bringing the number of active novel coronavirus infections nationwide to 48,201 and the total case count to 1,188,672.
DOH said in its latest bulletin that the latest sum of active cases represents 4.1 percent of all the documented COVID-19 cases in the country since the pandemic hit in 2020. It also said that the majority of these active cases, or 94 percent, were mild or asymptomatic.
According to the health department, all laboratories were operational on Sunday while 10 laboratories were not able to submit their data on time. Based on data in the last 14 days, the 10 non-rep…
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