DFA: Filipino CoViD-19 Cases Rises to 8,301

Manila, Philippines - The Department of Foreign Affairs said on Monday that they had reported the highest spike of confirmed CoronaVirus cases at 2,160 new confirmed CoViD-19 positives.

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With these cases, most of them came from the Middle Eastern countries and from European countries from reporting from DFA partners.

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A very similar thing happened to the number of recoveries with the highest increase reported to date at 2,193 and most of them came from the Middle East as well.

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The number of fatalities have also risen to 506 with 10 new fatalities reported on Monday, June 22.

About 76 percent and 36 percent of the reported cases and new recoveries respectively are due to the accumulated late reports from the respective countries in the Middle East which are observing strict confidentiality and privacy laws, DFA said.

The share of total deaths versus confirmed cases declined substantially to 6 percent as compared to 7.7% in the last week, DFA added.

The government agency will continue to update the latest information on the current situation of the Pandemic.

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