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MANILA – The Philippines confirmed 3,372 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the country’s total to 261,216.
The Health Department also reported 20,472 new recoveries, as DOH implemented its weekly “massive recovery” bringing the total number of Filipinos who recovered from the disease to 207,568.
This meant that the country has a total of 49,277 active cases as of 4 p.m. Sunday.
Seventy-nine more deaths from the disease were reported, bringing the death toll from COVID-19 in the Philippines to 4,371.
The National Capital Region had the highest number of new cases with 1,307 followed by the provinces of Cavite, Laguna, Negros Occidental and Rizal.
The Philippines has the highest number of total cases in Southeast Asia despite implementing the longest and strictest blockade in the region.
An official with the National Pandemic Task Force said Sunday that the government aims to flatten the COVID-19 curve by the end of September, or 7 months after the first infection was reported in the Philippines.
The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the country was that of a 38-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan, China.
Worldwide, the new coronavirus has infected 28.76 people since it first appeared in Wuhan, China, in 2019, according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center. It has also killed more than 970,000 despite strict lockdowns in place to try to contain it.
The United States is the most affected country in the world with more than 6.48 million infections and more than 193,000 deaths. The United States is followed by India and Brazil, in terms of number of infections. However, Brazil has reported more deaths than India.
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