MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) recorded 6,831 new COVID-19 infections and almost 8,000 recoveries on Saturday.
According to the DOH’s COVID-19 bulletin, the country’s active case count now stands at 54,236. The figure is slightly lower than the 55,531 cases reported last Friday because of the 7,981 recoveries.
The total recovery count is now at 1,103,945. In total, the country now has 1,178,217 confirmed COVID-19 cases.
Of this number, 93.6 percent of patients have mild symptoms while 1.9 percent are asymptomatic. At least 1.9 percent of the patients currently have severe symptoms while 1.4 percent are in critical condition.
Of the 48,824 tests conduct…
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