BREAKING: This is the 5th straight day that new COVID19 cases counted fewer than 3,000.
Active cases lowest since March 2 MANILA—The Philippines' total COVID-19 infections breached 2.8 million on Saturday, after the Department of Health confirmed 2,656 more cases.
Based on the latest bulletin, the country now has 2,800,261 total reported novel coronavirus cases, of which 34,866 are still active. Positivity rate is at 5.6 percent, based on samples collected from 48,218 individuals on Thursday. The World Health Organization's benchmark on positivity rate is 5 percent or lower for at least 2 weeks. There were also 154 more fatalities, the DOH said, raising the country's death toll to 44,239. The country crossed 44,000 total COVID-related deaths on Friday. This was the 8th straight day that new reported deaths were more than 100. Eight laboratories failed to submit data on time.
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