On Monday, April 13, the Department of Health announced that with the addition of 284 new cases, the total number of confirmed cases in the country now stands at 4,932, just shy of the 5,000 mark.
The country has currently have 242 full recoveries, but unlike other countries, the death toll is higher than the recovery number with 315 total deaths so far. Based on data from other Southeast Asian countries, the Philippines has the highest death-to-recovery ratio as one of only two countries where the number of deaths is larger than the number of recoveries. The only other country where this occurs is in Indonesia.
After the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia are the countries with the highest number of COVID-19 cases.
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These are the current number of cases, deaths, and recoveries in Southeast Asia, according to the global COVID-19 tracker by John Hopkins University.
Malaysia
Total cases: 4,683Total recoveries: 2,108
Total deaths: 76
Indonesia
Total cases: 4,241Total recoveries: 359
Total deaths: 373
Thailand
Total cases: 2,579Total recoveries: 1,288
Total deaths: 40
Singapore
Total cases: 2,532Total recoveries: 560
Total deaths: 8
Vietnam
Total cases: 262Total recoveries: 144
Total deaths: 0
Brunei
Total cases: 136Total recoveries: 99
Total deaths: 1
Cambodia
Total cases: 122Total recoveries: 77
Total deaths: 0
Myanmar
Total cases: 41Total recoveries: 2
Total deaths: 4
Laos
Total cases: 19Total recoveries: 0
Total deaths: 0
Timor-Leste
Total cases: 2Total recoveries: 1
Total deaths: 0
Since the virus emerged last December in the Chinese city of Wuhan, it has spread to at least 185 countries and regions.
There are nearly 1.98 million confirmed infections globally with over 126,800 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
More than 494,300 have recovered.
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