The Philippines on Tuesday logged 13,846 new COVID-19 cases as the reporting of deaths faced delays due to technical issues, the Department of Health said.
The day's infections brought the number of active cases to 132,139. A total of 39,980 new recoveries and 91 deaths were reported.
A total of 2,522,965 COVID-19 cases have been reported since the pandemic began in March 2020, of which 2,353,140 have recovered and 37,686 died.
The DOH technical team is manually encoding casualties in the COVIDKaya System to update numbers. Earlier on Tuesday, there were 102 additional deaths for Sept. 27.
Metro Manila is currently under Alert Level 4 of the new, alert-based quarantine classification system, which is expected to be lifted on Sept. 30. Certain areas are under granular lockdown due to high case counts driven by Delta, which is now the dominant variant in the country.
