In an online media briefing on Friday, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the first India variant case had six close contacts, and the second case had 35 close contacts on his flight. Virus case updateThe DOH on Friday said it recorded 6,784 new cases of COVID-19 infections, the highest number of new cases in four days. Meanwhile, 2,972 other patients have recovered from the respiratory disease, which pushed the total number of survivors to 1,053,523. The DOH said another 137 individuals have died, which brought the total number of fatalities to 18,958. The department said it removed 41 duplicates from the total case count.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 14, 2021 21:33 UTC