Philippines confirms nearly 7k new COVID cases, more than 10k new recoveries
MANILA - The Philippines confirmed 6,913 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the country’s total to 2,720,368. Ninety five new deaths were also reported, bringing the country’s death toll from the disease to 40,675.
The country is still struggling to ramp up its vaccine rollout. The government has said that it wants to inoculate over 77.1 million Filipinos by the end of the year. Government economic managers lowered the growth target for the second time this year, citing the tighter restrictions reimposed to check the spread of the Delta variant.
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