Philippines: Overseas Filipinos to get vaccine preferred by destination country; country's Covid-19 total now above 1.35 million


A woman reacts as she is inoculated with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at a sporting arena converted into a temporary vaccination center in San Juan, Philippines on Thursday, June 17, 2021. The government began expanding the vaccination priority group to indigent residents. - AP

MANILA, June 19 (Philippines Daily Inquirer/ANN): The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported on Saturday 6, 959 new COVID-19 infections, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the South-East Asian country to 1, 353, 220.

The death toll climbed to 23, 538 after 153 more patients died from the viral disease, the DOH said.

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