(Infographic courtesy of DOH) MANILA - The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday reported 2,730 new cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the lowest number of daily cases so far for this year. This is the first time in over a month that daily Covid-19 cases are below the 3,000-mark, since the 2,961 cases recorded on Dec. 31, 2021. In a report by the DOH based on its 'Feasibility Analysis of Syndromic Surveillance Using Spatio-Temporal Epidemiological Modeler for Early Detection of Diseases' (FASSSTER) online hub, it said the number of daily cases could further drop to 2,100 by mid-March if minimum public health standards (MPHS) are strictly enforced. "If compliance (with) MPHS decreases, cases are expected to go back to an increasing trend," the DOH said. The projected data, it said, assumed that most cases have the Omicron variant and are based on several other assumptions such as mobility, vaccination coverage, and adherence to MPHS. "To keep the case co
(Infographic courtesy of DOH) MANILA - New coronavirus infections in the country soared anew after 21,819 fresh cases were reported on Friday. In its Covid-19 bulletin, the Department of Health (DOH) said this raised the active case tally to 77,369 out of a total of 2,910,664 confirmed infections since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020. The number of fresh infections on Friday exceeded anew Thursday's 17,220 new cases. Meanwhile, 973 new recoveries raised the recovery count to 2,781,424, or 95.6 percent of all known infections. Of these new cases, it said 99 percent or 21,656 cases occurred within December 25 to January 7, with the National Capital Region (NCR) reporting the highest number of infections at 13,634 or 63 percent, Region 4A at 4,129 or 19 percent, and Region 3 at 2,084 or 10 percent during the said period. Out of the active cases, the majority at 70,321 have mild symptoms, those with moderate symptoms at 2,837, the asymptomatic at 2,438, those with severe sy