Passengers wearing face masks and face shields queue to ride a bus, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. The DOH said on Monday (Sept 14) said the total cases now is at 265,888 after 4,699 new daily cases. The DOH said that 259 more patients died, bringing the death toll to 4,630. - Reuters
MANILA, Sept 14 (dpa): The Philippines on Monday reported 259 deaths from Covid-19, the highest number of daily recorded fatalities, due to a revision of misreported data.
Most of the recorded fatalities dated back to July and August, as 253 of the deaths were initially recorded as recovered patients, but upon validation turned out to have died, the Department of Health said.
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