The Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday, July 1, reported more than 5,000 new cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

The case bulletin of the DOH showed 5,795 new COVID-19 cases.
This brought the number of COVID-19 cases in the country to 1,418,337.
Total recoveries rose to 1,341,973 with the addition of 2,859 new recoveries.
Total deaths also climbed to 24,797 with the addition of 135 new deaths.
The DOH said 17 duplicates were removed from the total case count as 14 of these were recoveries.
"Moreover, 27 cases previously tagged as recoveries have been validated to be active cases and 93 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation," it said.
The Health department said all labs were operational on June 29, 2021 while five labs were not able to submit their data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System (CDRS).
The DOH added that based on data in the last 14 days, the five non-reporting labs contribute, on average, 2.4 percent of samples tested and 2.3 percent of positive individuals.