The Philippines reported Monday 6,297 new coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) infections from March 1 to 7, 2022, according to the Department of Health’s (DOH) new weekly Covid caseload bulletin.
The DOH explained that the first week of the month recorded a daily average infection of 899, which is 30% lower compared to the infections reported from February 22 to 28.
Currently, there are 48,437 active Covid-19 cases. The health department reported 1,055 severe and critical cases and an intensive care unit (ICU) utilization rate of 25.7%, or 807 out of the 3,138 ICU beds. Both are the totals as of March 6.
The country’s fatality rate climbed to 615. Among the said number, 39 occurred in March 2022, 195 in February 2022, 104 in January 2022, four in December 2021, 16 in November 2021, 37 in October 2021, 53 in September 2021, 29 in August 2021, 11 in July 2021, 15 in June 2021, 16 in May 2021, 24 in April 2021, 35 in March 2021, five in February 2021, one in January 2021, one in December 2020, nine in November 2020, four in October 2020, six in September 2020, six in August 2020, three in July 2020, one in April 2020, and 1 in March 2020 (0.2%) due to late encoding of death information to COVIDKaya.
The DOH confirmed that 551 infections previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as fatalities after validation. Ronald Espartinez