Philippines coronavirus infections breach 8,000 mark
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Health workers attend to a patient outside a hospital in Manila.
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MANILA (REUTERS) - The Philippine Health Ministry said on Wednesday (April 29) that confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in the country have risen to more than 8,000.
In a bulletin, the Health Ministry reported 254 new infections, 28 additional deaths and 48 more recoveries.
That took the total cases to 8,212, deaths to 558 and recoveries to 1,023.
