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PHL logs 12,225 new Covid cases, 401 deaths on Friday

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Covid-19 patients stay outside the Amang Rodriguez Memorial Medical Center emergency area as they wait for rooms to be vacated in Marikina City on March 26, 2021.

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.

Image credits: AP/Aaron Favila

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Claudeth Mocon-Ciriaco is a grant recipient and fellow of 2017 media fellowship program by Probe Media Foundation Inc. She is a graduate of Bachelor of Mass Communication from the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM). After graduating in 2000 she immediately worked as a newspaper correspondent for Today Newspaper until 2005. Within those five years in Today Newspaper, she was assigned to cover the Eastern Police and Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), Rizal Province, and the Departments of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and Tourism (DOT). In October of 2005, she became a correspondent for the Philippine Business Daily Mirror Publishing, Inc. She covers Health, Education, MMDA, the local government units in the eastern and southern portions of the metropolis, and Rizal Province.

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