JUST IN: Philippines reports 5,032 new COVID19 infections, its largest single-day increase so far, taking the country's total number of cases past 100,000
FILE PHOTO: A nurse gets a swab from a man under observation for COVID-19 in a booth set up in a hospital parking lot in Manila, Philippines, Apr 15, 2020. MANILA: The Philippines on Sunday reported 5,032 additional coronavirus infections, its largest single-day increase so far, taking the country's confirmed cases to 103,185.
In a bulletin, the Department of Health also said the Southeast Asian country's coronavirus death toll had jumped by 20 to 2,059.President Rodrigo Duterte was scheduled to meet key cabinet members on Sunday to discuss a call by medical frontliners' groups to put the capital Manila, which accounts for the bulk of infections, back under a stricter lockdown, his spokesman said.
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