MANILA, Philippines — Local health authorities on Friday reported 5,676 more COVID-19 infections, bringing the national caseload to 1,496,328.
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Active cases: 48,480 or 3.2% of the total
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Recoveries: 2,670, pushing total to 1,421,372
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Deaths: 162, bringing total to 26,476
New quarantine classifications; more Delta variant cases detected
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Health authorities said they detected 16 more cases of the highly infectious Delta variant, 11 of which are "local." This brings the total number of people infected with the B.1.617.2 variant in the Philippines to 35.
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President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday approved the pandemic task force's recommendation to keep Metro Manila under general community quarantine until July 31 but additional restrictions will no longer be implemented.
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Several areas were reclassified today, however, "upon the recommendations of the Department of Health, its Technical Advisory Group, and the Technical Working Group on COVID-19 Variants," Palace spokesman Harry Roque said.
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Among the areas reclassified were Cagayan de Oro, the City of Gingoog, Iloilo City and Iloilo province, all of which were placed under the most stringent enhanced community quarantine until the end of the month.
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But even as the threat of more transmissible COVID-19 variants forces more stringent lockdowns, the IATF updated its list of "green" or low-risk territories to allow even more vaccinated travelers to go through a shorter quarantine period of seven days upon arrival in the Philippines.
— Bella Perez-Rubio