MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health reported an additional 6,959 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, bringing the total active cases in the country to 59,439.
The DOH said this is 4.4 percent of all the 1,353,220 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country. Of the active cases, 95.7 percent are mild and asymptomatic.
The new daily COVID-19 cases for June range from 5,000 to 8,000, with an average of 6,485 new infections reported per day.
Meanwhile, another 9,407 people have recovered from COVID-19, raising the recovery count to 1,270,243 or 93.9 percent of the tally.
An additional 153 patients have died of COVID-19, bringing the number of fatalities to 23,5…
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