MANILA – The country's daily average of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases went up by 60 percent from June 27 to July 3, the Department of Health (DOH) reported Monday.
From 662 per day from June 20 to 26, the number of Covid-19 cases reached 1,057 daily from June 27 to July 3.
The latest case bulletin showed that there were 7,398 new cases and 74 verified deaths in the recent week.
For the same period, 19 cases were added to the tally of severe and critical infections, which went down to 497 from the previous week’s 591.
Only 15.3 percent or 381 out of the 2,487 intensive care unit (ICU) beds are in use, while 19.9 percent or 4,342 of 21,791 non-ICU beds are utilized.
To date, about 70,780,972 or 78.64 percent of the country’s target population (90,005,357) are vaccinated against Covid-19, including 77.66 percent of 8,721,357 senior citizens.
As of July 3, a total of 15,147,905 have received booster shots out of the total 70,780,972 who are fully vaccinated. (PNA)
