MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines’ total coronavirus infections reached 429,864 after the Department of Health (DOH) announced 2,076 additional cases nationwide on Sunday.
According to DOH’s daily case bulletin, Quezon City recorded the highest increase in cases with 137, followed by Laguna with 122, Cavite with 103, Batangas with 96, and Angeles City with 79.
A new batch of 10,579 recoveries were also recorded, bringing the total to 398,624.
Most of the new recoveriesare due to the agency’s weeklyOplanRecoveryscheme which tags a patient asrecoveredafter spending a certain amount of time in quarantine and upon the loss of symptoms, even without a confirmatory coronavirus t…
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