MANILA, Philippines — The country’s active COVID-19 case count as of Monday, July 12 remained below the 50,000-mark despite the Department of Health (DOH) tallying 5,204 new infections.
The number from the DOH showed that the active case count is now at 49,128, slightly lower than Sunday’s tally which was at 49,701. Monday’s active case count represents 3.3 percent of 1,478,061 confirmed cases since the pandemic was recorded in the Philippines.
The total number of recovered patients is now at 1,402,918 — 94.9 percent of all the cases — after DOH recorded 5,811 new recoveries.
Most of the patients or 89.6 percent of active cases still have exhibited mild symptoms only, whil…
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