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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, October 31) – The country has seen another spike in COVID-19 infections with 1,803 new people testing positive, the Health Department announced on Saturday.
This brings the total to 380,729 with 42,462 currently active or sick patients, which is equivalent to 11.2% of the count. Of these active cases, 83.2% have mild symptoms, 11.3% have no symptoms, 3.5% are in critical condition and 1.9% are severe cases, the agency said in its bulletin of cases.
The province of Rizal reported 97 new infected residents, making it the area with the highest number of new cases, followed by the city of Davao with 93, the city of Quezon with 86, Cavite with 66 and the city of Pasig with 65.
Meanwhile, 606 more people have recovered from the disease, bringing the number of recoveries to 331,046. This is 87% of the total number of cases, the DOH noted. The death toll also rose to 7,221 and 36 more people succumbed to the disease. This equates to 1.9% of the case count.
The department said it removed seven duplicate cases from the total count, including three recoveries. He also noted that 14 retrievals from his previous bulletin were actually deaths after validation.
The count includes all the COVID-19 labs except 12 that were unable to submit their recent data, the DOH clarified.
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