MANILA — The Philippines on Sunday reported 1,858 new cases of COVID-19, pushing the country's total to 4,018,253 since the pandemic began.

Of the day's new infections, 349 were from Metro Manila.

The number of active cases is at 19,176, while the number of those who have recovered from the illness is at 3,934,690.

The Department of Health also logged 5 new deaths from the respiratory disease, raising the total to 64,387.

The positivity rate for the week of November 6 to 12 is at 10.4 percent, lower than the 11.3 percent recorded the previous week, Edson Guido, ABS-CBN's Data Analytics head, said.

The Philippines logged 6,346 COVID-19 cases in the past week, the DOH said Monday.

That means that from Oct. 31 to Nov. 6, an average of 907 daily infections were recorded in the country, which is 30 percent lower compared to the previous week.

That is the lowest number of cases logged in a single week in 19 weeks, or since the week of June 20-26 when the DOH logged 4,591, the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group said.

It was also the second straight week with weekly cases below 10,000. During the week of Oct. 24-30, the DOH logged 9,089 cases.

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As of Nov. 9, over 73.6 million people in the country have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the DOH said.

Of the figure, over 20.7 million have received their first booster dose.

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