(FILE) Workers in protective suits, used due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, wait outside a crematorium facility as the cremation process takes some two hours in Manila on April 29, 2020. (Photo by Maria TAN / AFP)
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) has reported 106 new COVID-19 deaths, bringing the country’s death toll to 50,675.
Of the 106 deaths, the DOH said six were recorded in December; 21 in November; 48 in October; 21 in September; five in August; one in July; one in May; and three in March.
The total number of deaths is 1.79 percent of the total caseload.
The DOH added that the total caseload is at 2,837,555 after 291 new COVID-19 cases were reported.
According to the DOH, of the 291 new COVID-19 cases, 260 or 89 percent were recorded in the recent 14 days (December 5-18).
Of the total caseload, only 9,924 or 0.3 percent of infections are still tagged as active cases. Of these, 43.9 percent have mild or no symptoms.
Meanwhile, the total number of recoveries is now at 2,776,956, or 97.9 percent of the cases after 523 new COVID-19 cases were reported.
The DOH noted that 187 cases — all recoveries — were found to have tested negative and have been removed from the total case tally. Meanwhile, 97 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation.
The global COVID-19 caseload is now at 273.6 million, including 5.34 million deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University Case Tracker.