90 new COVID-19 deaths push PH’s death toll past 25,000-mark

This file photo shows a worker in a protective suit, used due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, waits outside the crematorium facility as the cremation process takes some two hours in Manila on April 29, 2020. (Photo by Maria TAN / AFP FILE)

MANILA, Philippines — COVID-19 deaths in the country breached the 25,000-mark after the Department of Health (DOH) reported 90 new casualties on Saturday, July 3.

According to the DOH’s COVID-19 bulletin, the 25,063 deaths due to the disease represent 1.75 percent of the total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country, which now stands at 1.430 million.

Earlier, DOH numbers showed that active COVID-19 cases in the country are now at 53,665 compared to Friday’s 55,482, after the country recorded 7,698 new recoveries.

The DOH said all laboratories were operational last July 1, but five laboratories were not able to submit their data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System.

Also, based on the data from the last 14 days, the five laboratories that did not submit data accounted for 2.2 percent of all the samples tested, and 2.9 percent of all the positive cases.

There were also 19 cases that were previously reported to be recoveries that were reclassified as active cases. Meanwhile, 46 recoveries were reclassified as deaths after further validation.

Seven duplicate entries were also removed from the total case count, of which five are under-recoveries.

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