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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 13) —The Department of Health announced 1,453 more coronavirus infections in the country on Wednesday and more than 100 new deaths.
The new cases brought the national total to 492,700, of which 24,478 or 5% are currently ill patients.
DOH data showed that Quezon City had the highest increase in cases with 95. Cavite followed with 66, followed by Manila City with 54, Davao City with 50, and Cebu City with 44.
Meanwhile, the number of deaths from COVID-19 reached 9,699 and 146 more were confirmed. As in yesterday’s report, DOH once again attributed the increase to errors in previous reports, with 44 of the recently recorded deaths previously labeled as recoveries and only corrected after final validation.
Recoveries, on the other hand, now number 458,523 after 397 more patients were cleared of infection.
DOH said the updated case count excludes the most recent data from four testing labs that were not submitted on time. It added that it removed 11 duplicates from the overall count, including two recoveries and one death.
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