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MANILA, Philippines — Another 135 COVID-19 patients have died, raising the fatality count to 24,797, the Department of Health (DOH) said Thursday.
According to DOH, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country is now at 1,418,337, of which 24,797 have led to deaths.
The DOH said 51,567 of the tally are patients still tagged as active cases, which include 2.1 percent severe and 1.5 percent critical that are at higher risk of dying.
The majority, or 91 percent, are asymptomatic, 3.8 percent are asymptomatic and 1.56 percent have moderate infections.
Case bulletins from the last seven days showed there was an average of 108 deaths reported by the DOH each day from June 25 to July 1, the same average reported from June 18 to 24.
An average of 124 deaths was logged per day in the case bulletins of the DOH for the month of June.