Question

Direction: Read the news report below and summarize an three to five sentences then complete the given dialogue

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News Report
DON Total COVIU-19 cases in PH now 18.086
Published May 11, 2020 10 52 PM
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The Department of Health (DOH) announced that there have now been 18.086 confirmed
cases of coronavirus disease (COVI.19) in the country
An additional 802 cases were confirmed by the DOH as of 8:30 pm on Sunday (May 31).
or the newly-reported cases, 16 are considered fresh cases while the remaining 846 are
"Iate cases
The Don previously defined fresh cases as test results that came out and were validated by
its Epidemiology Bureau in the last three days while late cases are test results that came out
four or more days ago but were only recently validated.
The case bulletin also showed that another seven patients have died, bringing the country's
death toll to 957
So far, 3.909 patients in all have recovered as the DOH reported that 101 more patients
survived the disease
The spike in the number of contined COVID-19 cases was due to the Health department's
effort to catch up with the validation of test results, explained Health Under secretary Dr.
Mana Rosario Vergeire on Saturday (May 30).
The Philippines ranked third with the most number of cases among the 10- member states of
the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). after Singapore and Indonesia
Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) said there have been 5,817,385 confirmed
cases of COVID-19. including 362,705 deaths.

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Answer 1

answer: the spike in the cases was due to continued hepling of health department, as well as doctors, nurses also curing to those persons those who are suffering from covid desease.