A health worker distributes medicine and vitamins to a resident at an area placed under stricter lockdown measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Caloocan city, Philippines on Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. The capital and outlying provinces is still under lockdown due to rising Covid-19 cases. - AP
MANILA, Aug. 15 (Xinhua: The number of confirmed Covid-19 (coronavirus) disease cases in the Philippines surged to 157,918 after the Department of Health (DOH) reported 4,351 new daily cases on Saturday.
The DOH said that the number of recoveries further rose to 72,209 after 885 more patients have survived the disease.
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