These additional cases surpassed the previous record set at 6,598 on August 10 last year.
As of 4 p.m. of March 19, 2021, the Department of Health (DOH) also recorded 390 recoveries and 13 deaths.
Of the total number of cases, 11.3 percent (73,264) are active cases, 86.7 percent (561,902) have recovered, and 1.99 percent (12,900) have died.
With the highest number of cases recorded, the DOH urged the public to adhere to public health protocols.
“Just continue to stay at home and only go out when necessary,”the DOH encouraged.
Earlier, the OCTA Research Team warned that Covid-19 cases could reach as high as 11,000 new infections per day by the end of March 2021.
If not mitigated, the group said, it could overwhelm hospitals with 100 percent occupancy of all beds by that period.
Five laboratories were not able to submit their data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System on March 18, 2021.
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