MANILA, Philippines — An additional 1,387 coronavirus infections recorded as of Wednesday pushed the total active COVID-19 cases to 26,545, the Department of Health (DOH) said.
DOH’s COVID-19 bulletin also showed that 156 more patients recovered from the disease, for a total of 408,942 recoveries, which accounts for 92.1 percent of all cases recorded in the country.
However, seven more deaths push the death toll to 8,677.
Most of the active cases, or 85.2 percent, experience mild symptoms, 6.6 percent are asymptomatic, and 2.7 percent exhibited severe symptoms. Another 5.2 percent of the patients are currently in critical condition.
The majority of the new cases came from B…
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