The Philippines broke its second-highest Covid-19 cases recorded in a day since the start of the pandemic after logging 17,447 additional cases, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 1,916,461 on Friday.
There were also 6,771 recoveries and 113 deaths recorded.
Of the total number of infections, 7.4 percent (142,531) are active, 90.8 percent (1,741,089) have recovered, and 1.71 percent (32,841) have died.
There were 186 duplicates removed from the total case count. Of these, 186 are recoveries.
Moreover, 47 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation.
All laboratories were operational on August 25, 2021 but 1 lab was not able to submit their data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System.
Based on data in the last 14 days, the 1 non-reporting lab contributes, on average, 0.1 percent of samples tested and 0.1 percent of positive individuals.
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