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PH adds 6,833 more COVID-19 cases; active cases highest in 6 weeks

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Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News

<h3>Deaths exceed 100 on 4th straight day</h3><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/news/06/18/20210617-covid-face-shield-requirement-md-3226.jpg"/><figcaption>People wearing face masks and face shields walk along a footbridge in Quezon City on June 17, 2021.<em> Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA (UPDATE)— The Philippines tallied 6,833 more COVID-19 infections Friday, with active cases reaching more than 61,000, the health department said.</p><p>The country now has 1,346,276 total confirmed novel coronavirus cases, of which 61,776 or 4.6 percent are still active, according to the Department of Health&#x27;s (DOH) 4 p.m. bulletin. </p><p>The ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group (IRG) said the tally is the highest in 5 days or since June 13. </p><p>The number of remaining active infections is also considered the highest in 6 weeks or since May 7 this year, the research unit said. </p><p>There were 30 recovered cases that have been validated as active cases, the agency noted. </p><p>Friday&#x27;s positivity rate is at 12.6 percent, based on samples collected from 43,633 individuals who underwent screening for COVID-19 on Wednesday, June 16. </p><p>The virus also claimed 110 more lives, the lowest announced in 4 days, raising the country&#x27;s death toll to 23,385. </p><p>The case fatality rate stood at 1.74 percent. </p><p>A total of 60 cases were initially classified as recoveries, the DOH said. </p><p>This is also the fourth straight day that daily deaths were over 100. The country surpassed 23,000 deaths on Wednesday. </p><p>Meanwhile, 3,441 additional recoveries were logged, for a total of 1,261,115 or 93.7 percent of the running tally. </p><p>The new recoveries is the lowest in a week or since June 11 this year, the IRG noted.</p><p>Fourteen duplicates— 10 of which are recoveries while 1 is a fatality—have been excluded from the cumulative total. </p><p>Five laboratories failed to submit data on time. </p><p>The country is now on the fourth month of its COVID-19 vaccination program. The rollout started on March 1. </p><p>As of Wednesday, the government has administered 7,563,241<br/>vaccine doses, of which 5,551,087 are first doses.</p><p>A total 2,012,154 Filipinos, meanwhile, have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, representing 3.47 percent of the minimum 58 million government target. <br/> </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=1708455" 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><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>The ABS-CBN Investigative Research Group (IRG) said the new cases is the highest in 5 days or since June 13. <br /> </p>

The ABS-CBN Investigative Research Group (IRG) said the new cases is the highest in 5 days or since June 13.

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PH adds 6,833 more COVID-19 cases; active cases highest in 6 weeks

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Published Jun 18, 2021 04:27 PM PHT

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