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MANILA – The number of Filipinos abroad who contracted COVID-19 rose to 12,290 on Friday, after the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) confirmed 591 new cases.
The DFA did not say why the number of new cases, reported daily, skyrocketed to nearly 600, a number that is generally double-digit.
Another 419 patients recovered, the agency said, bringing the number of Filipinos recovered abroad to 7,997.
Meanwhile, the death toll among Filipinos abroad stood at 860 after 13 new deaths were recorded.
December 11, 2020
The DFA reports spikes in both confirmed COVID-19 cases and recoveries among Filipinos abroad, with 591 new cases and 419 new recoveries in Asia and the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. (1/3)@eddyboylocsin pic.twitter.com/4wcF7dh1FB
– DFA Philippines (@DFAPHL) December 11, 2020
The number of people currently receiving treatment abroad reached 3,433.
The Middle East and Africa region has the highest number of Philippine cases with 7,547, followed by the Asia Pacific region with 2,558. Europe has registered 1,416 Filipinos infected, while America has 769.
The new coronavirus is believed to have first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year.
As of Friday, the country has 447,039 total cases of COVID-19, of which 29,001 are considered active infections, 409,329 are recoveries, while the death toll stood at 8,709.
Nearly 70 million people around the world have contracted COVID-19, according to a tally by the US-based Johns Hopkins University, where the US, India, Brazil, Russia and France have the highest number of cases. accumulated.
More than 1.5 million people have died from the disease, while 45 million have recovered according to the JHU count.
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