MANILA (UPDATE) - The Philippines on Wednesday confirmed 3,806 more COVID-19 cases, with total active infections the lowest in more than 4 months, data from the health department showed.

Based on the latest bulletin, the country now has 1,485,457 total recorded coronavirus cases, of which 44,408 or 3 percent are active.

The ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group (IRG) pointed out that the day's active cases is the lowest since March 10, when the country registered 42,795.

The research unit said the number of active cases reported in previous days has been adjusted for duplicates.

The ABS-CBN Data Analytics team noted that Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar now have more active infections in Southeast Asia.

Meanwhile, the Philippines' positivity rate reported for the day is 11 percent, based on samples collected from 31,987 individuals who got screened for the disease last Monday.

On Monday and Tuesday, the positivity rate was below 11 percent.

COVID-related deaths increased to 26,232 after 140 additional fatalities were recorded.

The day's freshly confirmed deaths, the highest in 6 days according to the ABS-CBN IRG, included 105 cases first tagged as recoveries.

The case fatality rate is at 1.77 percent, the highest since March 31, ABS-CBN's data team noted.

There were 6,296 recoveries, bringing the total recuperations to 1,414,817 or 95.2 percent of the cumulative total infections.

Nine duplicate cases have been excluded from the running total. The DOH said 8 of those were recoveries.

Five laboratories failed to submit data on time.

The country is in the fifth month of its inoculation rollout, using shots from Pfizer, Moderna, Russia's Gamaleya Institute, Sinovac, and AstraZeneca.

• Philippines: COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker

As of Tuesday, the government was able to administer a total of 13,817,358 COVID-19 vaccine doses, 3,885,231 of which are second jabs.

The ABS-CBN research team said the number of those fully vaccinated against the disease represent 6.70 percent of the minimum 58 million government target by yearend.

More details to follow.