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MANILA, Philippines – There are now a total of 344,713 confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the Philippines, the Department of Health (DOH) reported 1,990 additional infections on Tuesday.
Most of the additional cases were from the National Capital Region (580 cases), Cavite (114), Rizal (105), Laguna (100) and Misamis Oriental (94).
Of the additional infections, 1,831 or 92% occurred in the past two weeks. The main regions with cases in the last 14 days were NCR (510 or 28%), Region 4A (436 or 24%) and Region 10 (158 or 9%).
The DOH also announced 327 more survivors, bringing total recoveries to 293,383, while there were 40 new deaths, bringing the country’s total death count to 6,372.
Excluding recoveries and deaths, 44,958 are active cases, of which 84.2% have mild symptoms, 10.6% are asymptomatic, 1.7% are severe cases, and 3.4% are in critical condition.
Active cases are patients who are still infected with COVID-19 and are in hospitals or are currently in quarantine.
There were 93 duplicate cases that were removed from the previous count, including 85 labeled recoveries.
“Additionally, 11 cases previously labeled as recovered were reclassified as deaths,” DOH said.
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