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MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines’ active COVID-19 case count is approaching the 120,000 mark, as the Department of Health (DOH) reported an additional 9,595 cases on Saturday.
In its latest data as of March 27, the DOH said the country now has a total of 712,442 COVID-19 cases, of which 118,112 are active infections.
Of the active cases, 95.1 percent are mild, 3.2 percent are asymptomatic, 0.7 percent are critical, 0.7 percent are severe, and 0.39 percent are moderate.
Meanwhile, there were also 481 new recoveries and 10 additional deaths, bringing the total to 581,161 and 13,159, respectively.
Nine duplicates, of which five were recoveries, were removed from the total case count.
And there were four cases that were previously labeled as recoveries and reclassified as deaths after final validation, the DOH said.
“Eleven labs were unable to submit their data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System (CDRS) on March 26, 2021,” the DOH added.
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