COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
The ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (), a new infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (), spread to the Philippines on January 30,2020. The first case of the disease was confirmed in Metro Manila.
Cases
The first case was a 38-year-old Chinese woman who was quarantined at a hospital in Manila. The second case was confirmed on February 2, that of a 44-year-old Chinese man who died a day earlier, which was also the first confirmed death from the disease outside mainland China.
The first case of someone without travel history abroad was confirmed on March 5, a 62-year-old male who was a Muslim prayer hall in San Juan, Metro Manila. The man' s wife was confirmed to have contracted COVID-19 on March 7, which was also the first local transmission to be confirmed.
Numbers
As of September 13,2020, there had been 261,216 confirmed cases of the disease in the country. Out of these cases, 207,568 recoveries and 4,371 deaths were recorded.
The Philippines has the most number of cases in Southeast Asia, ahead of Indonesia and Singapore.
The largest single-day increase in the number of confirmed cases was on August 10, when 6,958 new cases were announced.
At least one case was confirmed in all of the country' s 17 regions.
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