MANILA - The Department of Health (DOH) logged 31,173 new coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) infections and 26,298 new recoveries Thursday. Active cases increased to 275,364 while total recoveries jumped to 2,995,961, or 90.1 percent of the 3,324,478 infections recorded since the pandemic started in March 2020. Thursday's fresh cases tally is higher than Wednesday's 22,958. Among the active cases, 262,168 are mild, 2,979 are moderate, 8,424 are asymptomatic, 1,488 are severe, and 305 are critical. "Of the 31,173 reported cases today, 29,708 (95 percent) occurred within the recent 14 days Jan. 7, 2021 to Jan. 20, 2022," the DOH said. The regions with the most cases in the past two weeks were the National Capital Region (NCR) with 8,883 or 30 percent of new infections; Region 4-A (Calabarzon), 6,471 or 22 percent; and Central Luzon, 2,783 or 9 percent. The death toll is now at 53,153 with the addition of 110 new fatalities, representing 1.60 percent of overall cases.