THE Philippines logged 18,659 new cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), pushing the total to 2.453 million, although there were no recorded deaths on Friday, according to the Department of Health (DoH).

The "zero" deaths was due to a glitch in the CovidKaya system, which the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is now addressing.

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