The Philippines on Friday recorded a total of 401 Covid-19 deaths, the highest since the pandemic began.
However, the Department of Health (DOH) clarified that there were 213 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries and were reclassified as deaths after the “final validation.”
The daily Covid-19 cases recorded was also higher after 12,225 new cases were logged. There were also 946 recoveries.
The total number of infections in the country stood at 840,554.
Of the total number of cases, 21.2 percent (178,351) are active, 77.1 percent (647,683) have recovered, and 1.73 percent (14,520) died.
Ten laboratories were not able to submit their data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System on April 8, 2021.
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