The country has now logged a total of 904,285 coronavirus infections, of which 183,527 or 20.3 percent are active cases, the Department of Health said in its latest bulletin.
The country in the past 2 days logged less than 10,000 fresh infections, which the health department attributed to the lower number of laboratories that operated last Sunday and Monday. Of those currently battling the disease, 96 percent are experiencing mild symptoms, 2.8 percent are asymptomatic, 0.5 percent are severe, 0.4 percent are critical, and 0.3 percent have moderate symptoms.
The DOH said that 68 cases initially classified as recoveries turned out to be deaths after the agency's final validation. A total of 24 duplicates were removed from the total case count. Ten of those were recoveries while 1 was a fatality.Since March, the country has been logging record fresh infections and deaths, resulting in hospitals getting overwhelmed with patients.
Public health experts have asked mild and asymptomatic COVID-19 patients to opt for home care instead, in a bid to decongest hospitals in the capital region and 4 nearby provinces - also called collectively as the "NCR Plus".
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