MANILA, Philippines — The country now has 53,132 active COVID-19 cases, the Department of Health (DOH) said Wednesday, while 5,257 more people in the country were infected with the new coronavirus.
The current active infections represent 4.2 percent of all the 1,240,716 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country.
Of the confirmed cases, 94.1 percent or 1,167,426 have recovered, including the latest 6,266 patients who survived the disease.
There were also 146 new deaths, according to DOH’s Wednesday update, raising the tally of fatalities due to COVID-19 complications to 21,158, which is 1.71 percent of the total cases.
DOH also said that 12.8 percent of the 37,822 people t…
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