MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines on Saturday logged 7,443 additional COVID-19 cases and 156 more deaths because of the disease.
The newly-recorded cases pushed the total number of confirmed infections in the Philippines to 1,216,582, according to the Department of Health’s (DOH) case bulletin.
Of the total number, 53,614 are active cases. The number of deaths, meanwhile, rose to 20,722.
The DOH meanwhile recorded 7,533 more recoveries, bringing the total number of patients who recovered from the disease to 1,142,246.
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