Manila Bulletin
DOH reports over 20K more COVID-19 cases, no death reported anew due to system glitch
The Department of Health (DOH) reported another 20,755 COVID-19 infections nationwide, while no new deaths were recorded for three consecutive days due to ongoing technical issues with its COVIDKaya data system.
The Department of Information and Communications Technology is actively working to resolve the system's problems.
The DOH explained that when the issue is resolved, the succeeding increase in reported deaths will be due to the previous days' backlogs.
The country's cumulative COVID-19 case count reached 2,490,858, with 161,447 active cases.
The number of recoveries reached 2,292,006 after 24,391 new survivors were logged.
The country's COVID-19 death toll remained at 37,405.
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