This handout photo taken on May 1, 2021 and receive from the Presidential Communications Operations Office - Office of the Global Media and Public Affairs (PCOO-OGMPA) shows workers unloading first batch of the Russian-made Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine from a plane shortly after arriving at the international airport in Manila. - AFP
MANILA, May 1 (Xinhua): The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported on Saturday 9,226 new COVID-19 infections, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the South-East Asian country to 1,046,653.
The death toll climbed to 17,354 after 120 more patients died from the viral disease, the DOH said.
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