Of the newly reported deaths, 116 (35.3%) occurred in March, 81 (24.6%) in February, and 50 (15.2%) in January.
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 4) — The Department of Health (DOH) logged 2,679 new COVID-19 infections and 329 fatalities in the week of March 28 to April 3.
According to the agency’s weekly bulletin posted Monday, the daily average was 382, about 2% lower than the average from the previous week. Only one new case was tagged as severe or critical or about 0.04% of the new infections.
For the healthcare utilization rate, 16.7% of non-intensive care unit (ICU) beds are being used — or 4,230 beds out of 25,340.
Meanwhile, 492 out of 2,990 ICU beds are occupied or 16.5%. There are currently 692 severe and critical cases in hospitals — 11.9% of total COVID-19 admissions.
The DOH said 73.47% of the target population have been vaccinated and 75.83% of the target elderly population.
The total number of vaccinated individuals is over 66.13 million, including 485,128 who received their shots in the recent week. More than 12.15 million have gotten their booster doses, including 329,164 boosted in the recent week.
There were also 82 traced to last year: five in December, four in November, 16 in October, 14 in September, nine in August, 13 in July, 19 in June, and one each in May and March. Previously, the DOH explained that belated reporting of deaths is due to late encoding of information in the COVIDKaya data storage system.
