The Philippines on Friday recorded 9,838 additional Covid-19 cases, the highest single-day record-breaking rise since the pandemic struck.
As of 4 p.m. of March 26, 2021, the total number of infections in the country stood at 702,856.
There were also 663 recoveries and 54 deaths.
Of the total number of cases, 15.5 percent (109,018) are active cases, 82.6 percent (580,689) have recovered, and 1.87 percent (13,149) had died.
Seven laboratories were not able to submit their data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System on March 25, 2021.
Meanwhile, the DOH said that as of March 25, 2021 there are 15,662 (2.26 percent) confirmed cases among health-care workers. Of this number, 533 are active cases while 82 succumbed to the disease.
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