Philippines logs only 655 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday (March 12)

Women eat without the usual plastic barriers as the government places the capital on the lowest rung of a five-step pandemic alert system in Manila. - AP

MANILA, March 12 (Xinhua): The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported 655 new Covid-19 infections on Saturday, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the South-East Asian country to 3,670,177.

The DOH said a total of 57,441 people have died from Covid-19 complications since the Covid-19 outbreak in 2020.