Facade of the DOH main office in Manila. INQUIRER.net file photo
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday recorded 386 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the number of active cases to 3,097.
This is one of the highest numbers the DOH has recorded in weeks, higher than the 240 average number of daily infections recorded from June 6 to 12, based on a total of 1,682. It’s also higher than Sunday’s 308 infections.
With this, the country’s total COVID-19 caseload is now 3,693,608 nationwide, with 3,630,050 recoveries and 60,461 deaths, according to the COVID-19 Tracker on the DOH website.
Infections have been slightly increasing in the past few weeks, which experts previously attributed to neglected health standards.
Earlier, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire raised the possibility of raising the COVID alert system to Level 2 amid an uptick in COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila.
According to Vergeire, the slight rise in COVID-19 cases may also be attributed to mobility, the presence of transmissible subvariants, and the waning immunity of COVID-19 vaccines due to low booster shot coverage.
Metro Manila continues to have the most number of newly-recorded cases in the last 14 days at 1,513, followed by Calabarzon with 438 and Central Luzon with 248.
Within Metro Manila, Quezon City has the most reported cases at 324, followed by Manila with 210 and Makati with 204.
The DOH also previously announced that it had detected local transmission of both the BA.2.12.1. and the BA.5. — both of which health experts fear to be highly transmissible and can even evade vaccine protection.
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