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The COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines has resulted in, as of May 23, 2022, 3,688,941 reported cases, resulting in 60,455 reported deaths, the fifth-highest in Southeast Asia, behind Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. The first case in the Philippines was identified on January 30, 2020, and involved a 38-year-old Chinese woman who ...

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The country breached the 3 million-mark on the number of COVID-19 cases as DOH reported 28,007 new infections, climbing to 3,026,473 total with 181,016 (6%) as active cases. Meanwhile, 4,471 were logged as new recoveries and 219 were succumbed from the disease, adding to 2,792,946 recorded survivors and 52,511 as current death toll.

On January 14, the Philippines has secured 17 million doses of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines from British-Swedish pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca. A shipment of 487,200 Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines under COVAX's facility arrived in the country on March 4, 2021.

The COVID-19 alert level system was introduced with pilot implementation of the system in Metro Manila beginning on September 16, 2021. The old quarantine system is still to be used outside Metro Manila pending the nationwide adoption of the ALS. The ALS was introduced to areas outside Metro Manila on October 20, 2021.

As of April 14, 2020, around ₱57.8 billion have been released by the social welfare department to the country's 103 local government units (LGUs). The agency targets to make 18 million low-income households as beneficiaries of the program. Households with a family income of less than ₱10 thousand monthly income were given priority.