MANILA, Philippines — The country’s COVID-19 death count now stands at 24,372 with 128 new deaths reported by the Department of Health (DOH) on Sunday.
The total number of deaths is 1.74 percent of all new coronavirus cases, according to the DOH.
“Moreover, 69 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation,” the DOH noted.
Meanwhile, the total number of new coronavirus cases in the country is now at 1,397,992 after 6,096 new cases were added.
Of this number, 3.8 percent or 52,570 of all cases are still tagged as “active cases” with most either having mild or no symptoms at 95.1 percent.
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