PH logs 6,637 new COVID-19 cases | Inquirer News
Fourth day below 8,000 daily rise in cases.

PH logs 6,637 new COVID-19 cases

/ 04:36 PM May 06, 2021

This photo taken on April 6, 2021 shows a relative wearing personal protective equipment attending to a family member with COVID-19 at a makeshift ward in a hospital in Manila. - More contagious variants of the coronavirus have been blamed for a record surge in infections in Metro Manila that has overwhelmed hospitals and sent the national capital region into lockdown

This photo taken on April 6, 2021 shows a relative wearing personal protective equipment attending to a family member with COVID-19 at a makeshift ward in a hospital in Manila. More contagious variants of the coronavirus have been blamed for a record surge in infections in Metro Manila that has overwhelmed hospitals and sent the national capital region into lockdown. (Photo by JAM STA ROSA / AFP)

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) reported 6,637 additional COVID-19 cases, bringing the number of active infections in the country to 63,170 or 5.8 percent of cumulative cases.

Of the active cases, 96.2 percent are patients who are mild or asymptomatic.

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This is also the fourth consecutive day that the country has registered daily rise in COVID-19 cases below 8,000.

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According to DOH, the running total of all confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Philippines is now 1,080,172, with 999,011 patients, representing 92.5 percent of total, having recovered from the viral disease.

Despite the high number of recoveries, a total of 17,991 patients have died, including 191 additional fatalities. Deaths account for 1.67 percent of all COVID-19 cases.

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The DOH said 14.7 percent of 44,997 individuals who were tested were found infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.

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Meanwhile, 20 duplicate entries, including 13 recoveries, were removed from the count, while 109 recoveries initially tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths following validation.

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The DOH said all laboratories were operational on May 4 and one laboratory was not able to submit its data.

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