MANILA, Philippines — The country’s total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has breached the 1.5 million mark Saturday as the Department of Health (DOH) reported 6,040 more infections.
According to the DOH, there are now 47,257 active COVID-19 cases, which comprise 3.1 percent of the 1,502,359 cumulative count. Of the active infections, 93.8 percent are mild and asymptomatic.
Meanwhile, the DOH also recorded 7,213 recoveries, raising the recovery count to 1,428,504—95.1 percent of the tally.
But 122 more people succumbed to COVID-19, further pushing the death toll to 26,598. The case fatality rate in the country, or the percentage of people who died in all the…
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