Philippines surpasses one million COVID-19 cases
The Philippines surpassed one million total COVID-19 cases on Monday, April 26.
As of Monday, the country reported 8,929 new infections, bringing the total to 1,006,428 with 74,623 active cases and a positivity rate of 16.7%.
The death toll rose by 70 to 16,853 while recoveries increased by 11,333 to 914,952.
Sunday's report showed 8,162 new infections, bringing the total close to one million with 77,075 active cases and a positivity rate of 17.1%.
The number of daily recoveries has been increasing since April 19 when the DOH started doing 'daily time-based tagging' of recoveries.
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