Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, June 30) — The country recorded 4,509 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, raising the nationwide tally to 1,412,559, the Department of Healths latest bulletin showed.
Of the total, 48,649 are active cases or currently ill patients. The last time the country logged active cases below 50,000 was in June 23, where 49,862 were ill.
Meanwhile, the death toll rose to 24,662 after 105 more patients succumbed to the coronavirus. The number of COVID-19 survivors also climbed to 1,339,248 with 5,839 new recoveries.
The DOH said all laboratories were operational last June 28, but six laboratories were not able to submit their data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System. Based on data in the last 14 days, the six non-reporting laboratories contribute, on average, 1.6% of samples tested and 2.2% of positive cases.
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The country recorded 4,509 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, raising the nationwide tally to 1,412,559, the Department of Health’s latest bulletin showed.
