MANILA, Philippines — The country’s active COVID-19 cases further went down to 107,988 as of Thursday, as the Department of Health (DOH) reported 17,138 new recoveries.
This 17,138 new recoveries — which brought the total recovery count to 846,691 — is the fifth straight day that the country registered more than 9,000 recoveries in a day, starting from Sunday’s 72,607.
DOH also tallied 8,767 new infections, and 105 new deaths that push the death toll to 16,370.
All in all, the country has 971,049 confirmed COVID-19 cases.
Most of the patients or 96.6 percent of active cases have exhibited mild symptoms only, while 1.3 percent were asymptomatic. At least 0.9 percent of t…
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