THE Department of Health on Friday, February 19, 2021, reported 1,901 new coronavirus infections and 157 deaths, the highest single-day death toll in five months.
These additional mortalities pushed the cumulative death toll from coronavirus disease 2019 to 11,829. The case fatality rate jumped to 2.12 percent. The total case count in the Philippines stood at 557,058, of which 32,440 or 5.8 percent were active cases in isolation or in hospitals.
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