MANILA – The country’s daily average of new coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases decreased by 35 percent from June 12 to 18, the Department of Health (DOH) reported Monday.
In its latest case bulletin, the agency recorded 612 daily infections, a drop of 335 cases from the 947 recorded between June 5 to 11.
A total of 4,281 new cases were recorded in the recent week.
The tally of severe and critical infections decreased to 477 from the previous week’s 527.
No deaths were verified during the past week.
Only 16.6 percent or 346 out of the 2,080 intensive care unit (ICU) beds are in use, while 19.5 percent or 3,434 of 17,647 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 4,159,815 million coronavirus cases and 66,482 deaths since January 2020. (PNA)
