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[아시아뉴스통신=조날드 타파난 기자] A modest spike in the total number of COVID-19 cases among Filipinos abroad has been recorded with 65 new infections in the Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East/Africa, raising the case count to 9,692. The death toll also reached 702 after seven new fatalities were reported in the Asia Pacific and Middle East/Africa.
Meanwhile, the recoveries rose to 5,737 with one new recovery logged in the Asia Pacific, one in Europe, and five in Middle East/Africa. Globally, around 18,354,342 confirmed cases, including 696,147 deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported by the World Health Organization. About half of the global cases came from the Americas which already recorded 9,841,842, followed by Europe with 3,451,556.