COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
2020 CE.
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The COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines was a part of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). As of August 5, 2026, there have been 4,173,631 reported cases and 66,864 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, involving a 38-year-old Chinese woman at San Lazaro Hospital in Metro Manila. On February 1, 2020, a posthumous test result from a 44-year-old Chinese man returned positive for the virus, making the Philippines the first country outside China to record a confirmed death from the disease. After over a month without recording any cases, the Philippines confirmed its first local transmission on March 7, 2020. The virus subsequently spread to every province in the country. National and local governments imposed community quarantines after March 15, 2020, to limit the spread of the virus, including the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) from March to May 2020.
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