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PH confirms 7,450 more COVID-19 cases; active cases highest in nearly a month

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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/06/04/20210602-covid-mall-vaccinated-discounts-jc-9.jpg"/><figcaption>Diners eat at restaurants inside a mall in Manila on June 2, 2021 as some dining establishments offer various promos and discounts to fully vaccinated customers. <em>Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA (UPDATED)— The Philippines on Friday recorded 7,450 new COVID-19 cases, the highest daily tally in a week, with the number of active cases also at the peak in almost a month. </p><p>The country now has 1,255,337 total confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which 60,794 or 4.8 percent are considered active infections, the latest bulletin read.</p><p>According to the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group, the day&#x27;s number of active cases is considered the highest since May 8 this year, when the country had 61,733 active carriers of the disease. </p><p>The number of active cases has been adjusted for duplicates. </p><p>There were 181 newly reported deaths due to the virus, bringing the country&#x27;s death toll to 21,537. </p><p>According to the Department of Health (DOH), most of the day&#x27;s deaths, or 119 cases, were initially tagged as recoveries. </p><p>Except for Tuesday, the country had registered more than 100 deaths since May 26. </p><p>Recoveries rose to 1,173,006 with 2,382 fresh recuperations, the lowest in nearly 7 weeks or since April 17, according to the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group. </p><p>The ABS-CBN Data Analytics team, meanwhile, said this is the lowest number of recoveries since the health department veered away from its weekly &quot;mass recoveries&quot; and began its daily recovery tagging.</p><p>&gt;READ: https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/21/21/covid-19-mass-recovery-tagging-now-daily-in-bid-to-address-skewed-data-says-doh</p><p>The total number of recoveries accounts for 93.4 percent of the country&#x27;s running tally. </p><p>Friday&#x27;s positivity rate is down to 13.6 percent from 14 percent on Thursday. This is based on samples from 48,862 individuals who underwent testing for COVID-19 on Wednesday. </p><p>A total of 12 duplicates have been excluded from the total recorded cases, of which 9 were recoveries and 1 is a death. </p><p>Five laboratories failed to submit data. </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=1698841" 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>As of Wednesday, the country has administered nearly 5.4 million COVID-19 shots, of which 4.08 million are first vaccine doses. </p><p>Nearly 1.3 million Filipinos, meanwhile, are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or 2.23 percent of the minimum 58 million target by yearend. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/multimedia/infographic/03/23/21/philippines-covid-19-vaccine-tracker">Philippines: COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker</a></li></ul><p>According to US-based Johns Hopkins University, almost 172.2 million people globally have been infected by the novel coronavirus, more than a year since it emerged from the city of Wuhan in China.</p><p>Some 3.7 million people worldwide, meanwhile, have died due to the disease. </p><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>MANILA (UPDATED)— The Philippines on Friday recorded 7,450 new COVID-19 cases, the highest daily tally in a week, with the number of active cases also at the peak in almost a month. </p>

MANILA (UPDATED)— The Philippines on Friday recorded 7,450 new COVID-19 cases, the highest daily tally in a week, with the number of active cases also at the peak in almost a month.

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PH confirms 7,450 more COVID-19 cases; active cases highest in nearly a month

Job Manahan,

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Published Jun 04, 2021 04:00 PM PHT

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Updated Jun 04, 2021 08:10 PM PHT

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