Philippines logs 4,842 new Covid cases, total rises to over 1.11mn


Manila, May 12 (IANS): The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported 4,842 new Covid-19 infections on Wednesday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 1,118,359.

The death toll climbed to 18,714 after 94 more patients died from the viral disease, the DOH said.

The Philippines has been battling one of the worst outbreaks in Asia. During the past week, its average number of daily new cases had hovered between about 6,600 to 7,700, the Xinhua news agency reported.

The low number of cases reported on Wednesday is due to "low testing output of laboratories," the DOH said.

The Philippines, which has about 110 million population, has tested over 11 million people since the outbreak in January 2020.

 

  

Top Stories


Leave a Comment

Title: Philippines logs 4,842 new Covid cases, total rises to over 1.11mn



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.