Philippines records 1,067 COVID-19 cases; active tally at 51K

The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday recorded 1,067 new COVID-19 infections, bringing the country’s caseload to 3,663,059 as nine laboratories failed to submit data on time.

The country's active case count is 51,592, of which 489 are asymptomatic, 46,609 are mild, 2,779 are moderate, 1,417 are severe, and 289 are critical.

Ngayong 4 PM, Marso 1, 2022, ang Department of Health ay nakapagtala ng 1,067 na karagdagang kaso ng COVID-19. Samantala ay mayroon namang naitalang 1,652 na gumaling at 0 na pumanaw. pic.twitter.com/nB44MQhJsV

— Department of Health (@DOHgovph) March 1, 2022

The DOH said of the new cases on Tuesday, 652 or 61%  occurred within the recent 14 days from February 16 to March 1, 2022.

Among the top regions with cases in the recent two weeks were the National Capital Region (NCR) with 144 or 22%, followed by Region 4-A with 92 or 14% and Region 3 with 72 or 11%.

A total of 1,652 more patients recovered from the respiratory disease, bringing the total tally to 3,555,016.

The Health department also reported zero deaths. The death toll remained at 56,451.

Meanwhile, the country’s COVID-19 positivity rate was at 4.3%, which is lower than the World Health Organization's requirement target of less than 5% positivity rate. The total conducted COVID-19 tests were at 18,766.

“Please note that lower reported numbers and positivity rate today are because these are Sunday laboratory outputs, which traditionally have the lowest outputs per week,” DOH said.

The department said all laboratories were operational since February 27, while there were nine laboratories that failed to submit data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System.

“Based on data in the last 14 days, the nine labs contribute, on average, 1.4% of samples tested and 1.4% of positive individuals,” it said.

It reported five duplicates were removed from the total case count. Of these, three are recoveries.

Based on the latest data, it also showed that 26% of 3,700 intensive care unit (ICU) beds for COVID-19 patients nationwide are in use.

At least 15% of the 14,300 ward beds in the country were utilized, while 24% of the 4,000 ward beds in the NCR were in use.—LDF, GMA News