Daily average COVID cases jump to 1,057 – DOH

MANILA, Philippines — The number of daily average infections of COVID-19 rose to 1,057 from June 27 to July 3, after the Department of Health (DOH) recorded a total of 7,398 infections in the said period.

Based on the DOH’s weekly report on Monday, the recorded total infections are significantly higher than the total logged the previous week at 4,634 with an average daily infection of 662.

However, most of these new recorded cases were mild infections as only 19 or 0.26 percent of the new cases were tagged as severe or critical.

With this, the total number of severe or critical cases is currently at 497 or 8.4 percent of the total COVID-19 admissions.

Meanwhile, 74 deaths were added to the country’s COVID-19 death toll — all of which were backlogs from previous months from March 2021 to February 2022.

Non-ICU-bed utilization rate also lies at 19.9 percent currently, with ICU-bed utilization rate at 15.3 percent.

In terms of vaccination progress, fully-vaccinated individuals are now at 70,780,972 (78.64 percent of the target population) after 422,335 additional individuals were vaccinated in the past week.

On the other hand, individuals with booster shots now total 15,147,905 after 200,125 additional individuals were inoculated in the same period.

Based on the DOH’s COVID-19 tracker on its website, as of July 3, the COVID-19 caseload is currently at 3,708,271 nationwide, with 3,637,976 recoveries and 60,592 deaths.

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