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MANILA, Philippines — The COVID-19 tracker on the website of the Department of Health (DOH) showed Wednesday that 265 more people contracted the coronavirus.
It also indicated that active COVID-19 infections further decreased to 32,463 and that the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases nationwide reached 3,680,244, including 3,588,359 recoveries and 59,422 fatalities, since the pandemic hit in 2020.
The fresh infections reported on Wednesday appear to be slightly lower than the average number of COVID-19 cases recorded from March 28 to April 3 which was 382 per day.
In its last weekly report, the DOH reported it logged a total of 2,679 new coronavirus cases from March 28 to April 3.
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