MANILA, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) — The Philippines’ Department of Health (DOH) reported 17,677 new COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, raising the number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 3,459,646.
The DOH said the number of active cases dropped to 247,451 as the country’s positivity rate also dipped to 37.2 percent, for the first time below 40 percent since Jan. 6.
The DOH added that 79 more peo