MANILA, Philippines — The country logged a new record-high single day increase in COVID-19 cases after the Department of Health registered 15,310 new cases on Friday.
However, the DOH clarified that this number includes the 3,790 case backlogs that were due to technical issues in the COVIDKaya database.
“On March 31 2021, the DOH reported only 6,128 new cases due to COVIDKaya system issue. After system checks, validation, and deduplication were made, 3,709 additional cases were confirmed,” DOH said in its COVID-19 bulletin.
“All system issues have been resolved and were put in place to prevent the same issue from happening again,” it added.
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