CITY OF SAN FERNANDO The Department of Health (DOH) reported that the country’s daily average of new Covid-19 cases went up by 9.0 percent from February 6 to 12.
In its case bulletin, the DOH noted that daily infections increased to 157 in the last week from 145 infections from January 30 to February 5, with 1,101 new cases and 98 verified fatalities, six of which succumbed to the disease from January 30 to February 12.
As to severe and critical infections, the DOH Covid-19 bulletin also showed that during the same week, no cases were added but increased from 388 to 426 from the previous week. As of Monday, the DOH has recorded over 4.07 million Covid-19 cases and more than 65,949 fatalities.
The DOH added that only 13.9 percent or 311 out of the 2,243 intensive care unit beds are in use, while 19.6 percent or 3,402 of 17,344 non-ICU beds are utilized.
As of February 12, the DOH also reported that some 73,860,103 or 94.57 percent of the country’s target population of 78,100,578 have been vaccinated against Covid-19, including 79.47 percent of 8,721,357 senior citizens, with a total of 21,450,894 individuals have received abbed with Covid booster shots.