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Philippines’ COVID-19 tally nears 539K
The Philippines' COVID-19 tally reached 538,995 with 1,690 new infections reported on February 8.
Total recoveries climbed to 499,772 after 23 more patients recovered.
The death toll increased to 11,231 with 52 new fatalities.
The DOH noted that four duplicates were removed from the total case count, while 46 cases previously tagged as recovered were reclassified as deaths.
An additional recovered case was removed from the total count after testing negative.
There are now 27,992 active cases undergoing treatment or quarantine.
Twenty-two of the 25 cases infected with the B.1.1.7 variant have recovered.
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