Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat on Tuesday sought for a price cap on the real-time Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) or the RT-PCR swab confirmatory test and Antigen tests for COVID-19 to boost the reopening of tourism.

In total, 516,898 new infections and 7,723 deaths were announced, according to the tally compiled on Wednesday.

This comes after 50 new recoveries were recorded, bringing the total recoveries in the agency to 6,511—good for a 92% recovery rate in the PNP.

Three mining sites reported cases of COVID-19 among their workers.

"There are appeals but I cannot release them until the IATF can process them," DILG spokesperson Jonathan Malaya said.