MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) reported an additional 8,162 new COVID-19 infections on Sunday, April 25.
But despite the still high daily count, active COVID-19 cases are steadily going down due to the high recovery rate. As of Sunday, active cases were at 77,075, while 20,509 new recoveries brought the total recovery count to 903,665.
However, 109 new deaths pushed the death toll to 16,783.
With the new cases, the country inched closer to the one million mark for confirmed COVID-19 cases at 997,523.
Most of the patients or 95.56 percent of active cases have mild symptoms, while 1.5 percent were asymptomatic. At least 1.2 percent of the p…
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