MANILA, Philippines — Active COVID-19 cases in the country are now at 55,140 as the Department of Health (DOH) reports 6,664 new cases.
According to DOH, there are now 1,555,396 total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country as of Monday.
The DOH said 5,766 more recoveries raised the number of patients who have recuperated from the disease to 1,473,009. Meanwhile, 23 more deaths brought the death toll to 27,247.
According to the health department, 13.4 percent of 45,369 people who were tested were found positive for coronavirus on Saturday.
The DOH said one laboratory was not operational on Saturday and eight laboratories were not able to submit their data on time. On average, the eight non-reporting labs contribute 2.3 percent of samples tested and two percent of positive individuals based on data in the last 14 days.
Twenty-three duplicate entries, including nine recoveries, were removed from the total case count, while 17 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after validation.
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