FILE PHOTO: Zambales residents are being briefed by a representative of the Department of Health about the government’s PinasLakas program, which aims to boost the COVID-19 vaccination campaign. Image from DOH Central Luzon / Facebook
SAN ANTONIO, Zambales — Seven more virus-infected patients in this province recovered from COVID-19 on Tuesday, September 13, bringing the number of active infections down from 41 to 34.
According to the provincial health office, only one new COVID-19 case was added to its tally on the same day.
But the death toll related to the viral disease rose to 714 after a patient died due to COVID-19 complications.
The new batch of recoveries raised to 11,065 the number of patients in the province who were cleared of the disease. This represented 93.94 percent of the 12,253 COVID-19 cases reported since 2020.
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