MANILA – The country’s daily average of new coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases decreased by 22 percent from May 29 to June 4, the Department of Health (DOH) reported Monday.
In its latest case bulletin, the agency recorded 1,301 daily infections, a 366-case decrease from the 1,667 recorded between May 22 to 28.
A total of 9,107 new cases were recorded in the recent week.
The tally of severe and critical infections increased to 559 from the previous week’s 554.
Ten deaths were verified during the past week with three of them occurred from May 22 to June 4.
Only 18.9 percent or 397 out of the 2,099 intensive care unit (ICU) beds are in use, while 23 percent or 4,101 of 17,848 non-ICU beds are utilized.
At least 78,443,972 or 100.4 percent of the country’s target population (78,100,578) have been vaccinated against Covid-19, including 82.16 percent of 8,721,357 senior citizens, as of March 19.
A total of 23,811,248 have received booster shots out of the fully vaccinated population.
To date, the country has logged 4,148,401 million coronavirus cases and 66,476 deaths since January 2020. (PNA)
