Despite failure of 13 laboratories to submit reports on time, today’s new Covid cases reached 7,186, highest since June 13

The health department said there are 7,186 new COVID-19 cases recorded for today.

This, despite the failure of 13 laboratories to submit their reports in time.

With the new 7,186 cases, the total number of coronavirus disease 2019 cases in the Philippines rose to 1,562,420.

New deaths recorded due to Covid totalled 72, bringing the total death toll to 27,318 as of today.

The Department of Health (DOH) revealed that 13 laboratories failed to submit data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System on time.

The country’s active cases also went up to 56,477, of which 93.8% are mild, 1.3% are asymptomatic, 2.3% are severe, and 1.1% are in critical condition.

Total recoveries climbed to 1,478,625 following the recovery of 5,672 more patients.*