(File photo) MANILA - The Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday logged 289 new Covid-19 cases, pushing the country's total tally of infections to 2,837, 016. This is the third consecutive day the country has recorded new infections below 300. On Tuesday, the DOH recorded the lowest single-day infection in 18 months at 235. In its latest case bulletin, the agency noted the active cases declined further to 10,095 after 380 new recoveries have been reported. The country now has 2,776,425 recoveries. About 3,870 of the active cases are mild, 549 are asymptomatic, 389 are critical, 1,845 are severe, and 3,442 are moderate. "Of the 289 reported cases today, 256 or 89 percent occurred within the recent 14 days - Dec. 3 to 16, 2021. The top regions with cases in the recent two weeks were NCR with 70 or 27 percent, Region 4A (Calabarzon) with 27 or 11 percent and Region 7 with 26 or 10 percent," the DOH said. The DOH also recorded 47 new deaths, which brought the country's Co
(PNA photo by Avito Dalan) MANILA - The number of daily coronavirus infections in the country has stayed below 400, with only 370 fresh cases logged on Wednesday. The latest bulletin from the Department of Health showed the country's active case tally is at 12,510, down from Tuesday's 13,026. This is the second straight day when the country logged less than 400 new cases, following Tuesday's 356 new infections the lowest single-day number of infections in 17 months. Another 859 new recoveries, meanwhile, raised the total tally to 2,773,322. Recoveries account for 97.8 percent of the total case count of 2,835,593 since the start of the pandemic last year. Among active cases, 4,974 are mild, 883 are asymptomatic, 476 are critical, 2,261 are severe, and 3,916 are moderate. The death toll has reached 49,761 with 171 new deaths. "Of the 113 reported deaths, only 14 occurred in December 2021. About 21 percent of the reported deaths today occurred in November 2021 due to la
(PNA photo by Avito Dalan) MANILA - The number of daily coronavirus infections in the country has stayed below 400, with only 370 fresh cases logged on Wednesday. The latest bulletin from the Department of Health showed the country's active case tally is at 12,510, down from Tuesday's 13,026. This is the second straight day when the country logged less than 400 new cases, following Tuesday's 356 new infections the lowest single-day number of infections in 17 months. Another 861 new recoveries, meanwhile, raised the total tally to 2,773,322. Recoveries account for 97.8 percent of the total case count of 2,835,593 since the start of the pandemic last year. Among active cases, 4,974 are mild, 883 are asymptomatic, 476 are critical, 2,261 are severe, and 3,916 are moderate. The death toll has reached 49,761 with 171 new deaths. "Of the 113 reported deaths, only 14 occurred in December 2021. About 21 percent of the reported deaths today occurred in November 2021 due to la
(File photo) MANILA - The Department of Health on Tuesday logged 2,303 new Covid-19 cases, the lowest single-day number of infections in nearly eight months, to bring the country's tally to 2,792,656. In its 4 p.m. case bulletin, the agency also reported 4,677 new recoveries and 128 new deaths. The figures brought the total number of recovered cases to 2,708,468 and the death toll to 43,404. The new infections pushed the active cases to 40,786 with 71.2 percent listed as mild, 5.1 percent asymptomatic, 3.2 percent critical, 7.5 percent severe, and 13.02 percent moderate. On March 10, the DOH recorded below 3,000 cases after reporting 2,886 infections. According to DOH data on Oct. 31, about 6.8 percent of 29,769 who were tested turned out positive for Covid-19. "About 22 duplicates were removed from the total case count, and of these, 19 are recoveries and one death. Moreover, 106 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validatio
MANILA - The country's total number of recovered coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases has reached 2,680,081 after 3,924 new recoveries were reported on Thursday. In its 7 p.m. case bulletin, the Department of Health (DOH) noted that recoveries account for 96.7 percent of the total case count which has reached 2,772,491 since the start of the pandemic last year. Meanwhile, some 3,694 new infections brought the total number of active cases nationwide to 49,835. About 73.4 percent of these active cases are mild, 6.8 percent are asymptomatic, 2.6 percent are critical, 6.2 percent are severe, and 10.97 percent are moderate. A total of 227 new deaths were reported, bringing the country's Covid-19 fatalities to 42,575. According to DOH data on Oct. 26, about 8.6 percent of 50,755 who were tested turned out positive for Covid-19. "About 52 duplicates were removed from the total case count, and of these, 34 are recoveries and one death. Moreover, 158 cases that were previously