The Philippines on Monday reported 8,355 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the cumulative total past the 800,000-mark, with the lockdown in the Greater Metro Manila area extended for another week.
As of Monday, the Department of Health said there were 143,726 active COVID-19 cases. Ten new deaths were reported, bringing the total death toll to 13,435 since the start of the pandemic.
There were 145 new recoveries to bring the total to 646,237. Since the start of the pandemic, the Philippines has tallied a total of 803, 398 COVID-19 cases.
Authorities extended the enhanced community quarantine or ECQ in Metro Manila, Bulacan, Laguna, Cavite, and Rizal for another week after record-high new COVID-19 cases were reported in the past few days.
Malacañang said it is looking at easing the lockdown to the more relaxed modified enhanced community quarantine or MECQ by next week if the COVID-19 situation improves.
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