BREAKING: PH tally of COVID-19 cases nears 190,000 with almost 3,000 deaths
MANILA - The Philippines confirmed 2,378 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday bringing the country’s total to 189,601.
The Department of Health also reported 16,459 new recoveries, as the DOH implemented “time-based mass recoveries” pushing the total number of Filipinos who recovered from the disease to 131,367. Thirty-two more deaths were reported from the illness, bringing COVID-19’s death toll in the Philippines to 2,998.
The National Capital Region had the most number of new cases at 1,022. It was followed by Cavite with 132 cases, Laguna with 128, Rizal with 115 and Cebu with 96.Worldwide, the novel coronavirus has infected over 23.2 million since the outbreak was first reported in China in late 2019. It has also killed more than 804,000 people, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
The United States has reported the most number of infections at over 5.6 million, with over 176,000 deaths.
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