MANILA, Philippines — The country’s active COVID-19 case count rose slightly to 55,260 with 6,385 new infections, after several days of continuous decline due to high recovery rates. Numbers from the Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday, May 13, showed that only 4,289 recoveries were tallied, for a total recovery count of 1,050,643. ADVERTISEMENTAll in all, the country has 1,124,724 confirmed COVID-19 cases. Most of the patients or 93.3 percent of active cases have still exhibited mild symptoms only, while 2.2 percent were asymptomatic. DOH said that 20 duplicate entries were removed from the total case count, of which 18 are recoveries.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 13, 2021 09:02 UTC