The Philippines now has 8,772 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as the daily surge in infections continues.
The Department of Health reported 284 new cases on Friday, three months into the coronavirus outbreak which began late January.
Forty-one more people have survived the viral illness, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,084. It takes around 13 days or up to more than a month for a patient to recover, depending on the severity of their symptoms.
The DOH has said majority of the country's active cases have mild symptoms.
Meanwhile, 11 more people died from COVID-19. The death toll is now at 579.
The DOH has explained these are not the real-time data since cases have to be validated before reporting.
To contain the spread of the virus, the entire country is placed under general community quarantine. Areas considered as high-risk, such as Metro Manila, are under a stricter enhanced community quarantine, where stay-at-home orders, and suspension of most work and mass transport are in place.
Authorities have attributed the rise in cases to expanded coronavirus testing. The country now has a daily testing capacity of up to 6,420 per day, stressing that this is bound to increase as the government procures and receives more test kits.
COVID-19 has infected more than 3.2 million and killed 233,000 worldwide since the outbreak began in Wuhan, China in December 2019.
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