(File photo) MANILA - The country's daily average of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases went up by 13 percent from Aug. 1 to 7, the Department of Health (DOH) reported Monday. From 3,443 per day from July 25 to 31, the number of Covid-19 cases reached 3,904 daily from Aug. 1 to 7. The latest case bulletin showed that there were 27,331 new cases and one verified death in the recent week. For the same period, 76 cases were added to the tally of severe and critical infections, which went up to 772 from the previous week's 744. Only 24.8 percent or 624 out of the 2,514 intensive care unit (ICU) beds are in use, while 30.9 percent or 6,648 of 21,548 non-ICU beds are utilized. To date, about 71,898,721 or 92.06 percent of the country's target population (78,100,578) are vaccinated against Covid-19, including 77.90 percent of 8,721,357 senior citizens. As of July 31, a total of 16,603,097 have received booster shots out of the total 71,898,721 who are fully vaccinated. In a
MANILA - The country's daily average of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases went up by 24 percent from July 25 to 31, the Department of Health (DOH) reported Monday. From 2,791 per day from July 18 to 24, the number of Covid-19 cases reached 3,443 daily from July 25 to 31. The latest case bulletin showed that there were 24,100 new cases and one verified death in the recent week. For the same period, 44 cases were added to the tally of severe and critical infections, which went up to 744 from the previous week's 666. Only 23.3 percent or 601 out of the 2,583 intensive care unit (ICU) beds are in use, while 29.5 percent or 6,505 of 22,051 non-ICU beds are utilized. To date, about 71,700,612 or 91.81 percent of the country's target population (78,100,578) are vaccinated against Covid-19, including 77.87 percent of 8,721,357 senior citizens. As of July 31, a total of 16,215,466 have received booster shots out of the total 71,700,612 who are fully vaccinated. Over the week