The Department of Health on Tuesday reported 4,487 additional cases of COVID-19 raising the total number of cases in the country to 1,154,338.
Active cases in the Philippines stood at 52,291 or 4.5 percent of the total number of cases.
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DOH also listed 6,383 recoveries bringing the total number of recovered patients to 1,082,275.
The death toll from coronavirus surged to 19,372 after the agency tallied 110 deaths.
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Meanwhile, twenty-four duplicate cases were removed from the total case count.
The health department said 64 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation. (RA)
