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PH logs 6,100 new COVID-19 cases

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/news/05/20/20210519-covid19-vaccine-marikina-jc-83.jpg"/><figcaption>Residents queue for the administration of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Marikina Sports Center on May 19, 2021. <em>Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA<strong> (UPDATE)</strong> - The Philippines reported 6,100 more COVID-19 infections on Thursday, the highest figure announced in 5 days, bringing the cumulative total in the country to over 1.165 million. </p><p>Of the country&#x27;s 1,165,155 confirmed coronavirus cases, 59,912 or 4.5 percent are considered active, according to the Department of Health (DOH). </p><p>According to the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group, after 6 days of declining active cases, it increased again on Thursday, up by 1,894 from Wednesday’s 50,018. </p><p>The number of active cases reported previously has been adjusted for duplicates. </p><p>Deaths climbed to 19,641 after 135 additional fatalities were reported.</p><p>These include 71 cases previously announced as recoveries but were reclassified as fatalities after the agency&#x27;s final validation. </p><p>Meanwhile, there were 4,071 new recoveries, raising the total number of patients who recuperated from the disease to 1,093,602.</p><p>The ABS-CBN IRG said the day&#x27;s recoveries is the lowest announced in 6 days, or since May 14 this year when 2,972 were logged.</p><p>The total number of recoveries accounts for 93.9 percent of the Philippines&#x27; running total. </p><p>Of the 49,220 samples that were tested for COVID-19 on Tuesday, 12.6 percent were found to be positive. </p><p>Three testing laboratories failed to submit results on time. </p><p>The 3 laboratories, the DOH noted, contributed only 0.8 percent on the samples tested in the past 2 weeks, where 2.1 percent of those who underwent testing were found positive for COVID-19. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/05/20/21/govt-orders-lgus-halt-covid-vaccine-brand-announcements">READ: Gov&#x27;t orders LGUs: Halt COVID vaccine brand announcements</a></li></ul><p>As of Tuesday, the government was able to administer 3.3 million COVID-19 vaccine doses since the rollout began in March. </p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO: </strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1688344" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>Of this figure, more than 786,000 were second doses. The number of fully vaccinated Filipinos is still far from the 58 million minimum target by yearend to achieve herd immunity.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/05/19/21/philippines-covid19-vaccination-update-may192021">DOH: Over 786,000 Filipinos fully vaccinated vs COVID-19</a></li></ul><div class="infogram-embed" data-id="_/XwlOyN6W2yUc4AnE9xPq" data-title="COVID-19 cases - 1" data-type="interactive"> </div><script type="text/javascript">!function(e,i,n,s){var t='InfogramEmbeds',d=e.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];if(window[t]&&window[t].initialized)window[t].process&&window[t].process();else if(!e.getElementById(n)){var o=e.createElement('script');o.async=1,o.id=n,o.src='https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed-loader-min.js',d.parentNode.insertBefore(o,d)}}(document,0,'infogram-async');</script>

<p>Of the country's 1,165,155 confirmed coronavirus cases, 59,912 or 4.5 percent are considered active.<br /> </p>

Of the country's 1,165,155 confirmed coronavirus cases, 59,912 or 4.5 percent are considered active.

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PH logs 6,100 new COVID-19 cases

Job Manahan,

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Published May 20, 2021 04:01 PM PHT

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Updated May 20, 2021 06:19 PM PHT

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