(SunStar) THE Department of Health (DOH) on Monday, July 12, 2021, reported 100 additional mortalities from coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), pushing the country’s death toll past 26,000.

In its case bulletin Monday, the DOH also reported over 5,000 new infections for five consecutive days.

As of July 12, the Covid-19 case count in the country has reached 1,478,061, including the 5,204 new infections and less the 12 duplicates that were removed as well as 156 cases that were deactivated after they were tagged by the local epidemiology and surveillance units as duplicates.

Of these 168 duplicates, 159 were previously tagged as recoveries and six were initially reported as deaths.