Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 27) — The country recorded on Wednesday 2,245 more COVID-19 infections, its highest single-day rise since November 8.
The Department of Health said this raised the total tally to 518,407, of which 32,384 or 6.2% are active cases.
The latest report showed the cities of Baguio and Cebu recorded the biggest increase in infections with 121 each. Davao City came next with 102, followed by Quezon City with 87 and Pangasinan with 81.
COVID-19 also killed 95 more people, pushing the nationwide death toll to 10,481. This is the second consecutive day the DOH logged nearly a hundred new fatalities. It said that of the 95 added, 19 were previously tagged as recoveries.
Meanwhile, 140 new survivors brought the recovery count to 475,542.
The department noted that four testing laboratories failed to submit data on time and were not yet included in the updated figures. Three duplicates, as well as a case found to have tested negative, were also removed from the overall count after final validation.
Worldwide, infections have breached 100.2 million since the first COVID-19 case was identified in Wuhan, China in December 2019. These include over 2.1 million deaths and 55.3 million recoveries, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University.
Among Filipinos abroad, cases rose to 13,897 with 40 more recorded by the Department of Foreign Affairs. Nineteen more got well for a total of 8,864 recoveries, while fatalities stayed at 945.
