July. 16, 2020, 8:45 PM, Quezon City, Philippines
Indonesia has the highest cases of COVID-19 with 81,668 while the Philippines has 61,266 cases. It seemed that Indonesia is still the 1st among ASEAN to have the largest number of cases of COVID-19 but it isn't. Indonesia has a total of 81,668 after adding 1,574 new cases today, but 40,345 of those were recovered and 3,873 died. Meanwhile, the Philippines has 61,266 cases after adding 2,498, but 21,440 recovered and 1,643 died. When you subtracted those total cases from the recovered and deaths, it shows that the Philippines has a lot of active cases instead of Indonesia with a total of 38,183 from the Philippines while 37,450. On the contrary, COVID-19 cases in South East Asia Region have surpassed 200,000-mark today.
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