In its latest bulletin, the health ministry said the number of people who have recovered from COVID-19 climbed by 727 to 114,114.
It also reported 88 new fatalities, pushing the death toll to 2,883. Thursday's fatalities is the sixth highest reported in a day. The highest daily report on deaths was on July 12 with 162 fatalities.
Latest DOH data showed that the National Capital Region recorded the most new coronavirus cases with 2,590. It is followed by Laguna (223), Cavite (155), Cebu (128) and Rizal (109).
The DOH also clarified that 91 duplicates were removed from the total case count.
"Moreover, there were 51 cases that were previously reported as recovered but after final validation, they were deaths (50) and active (1) cases," it added.
The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 787,00 people and sickened 22.4 million since it emerged in China last December, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. - With a
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