The Philippines on Saturday logged another record-high 39,004 COVID-19 infections, bringing the nationwide tally to 3,168,379.
In its latest bulletin, the Department of Health (DOH) reported 280,813 active case count, of which 8,928 are asymptomatic, 267,185 are mild, 2,925 are moderate, 1,472 are severe, and 303 are in critical condition.
Of the 39,004 reported cases on Saturday, 38,271 or 98% occurred within the last 14 days from January 2 to 15, 2022.
The DOH said the top regions that posted the highest cases in the recent two weeks were the National Capital Region (NCR) with 18,142 or 47%, followed by Region 4-A with 9,172 or 24%, and Region 3 with 3,325 or 9%.
Recoveries also rose to 2,834,708 after 23,613 more patients recovered from respiratory disease. The number of deaths climbed to 52,858 with 43 new fatalities.
Meanwhile, the country’s COVID-19 positivity rate was at 47.1%, which is slightly lower than the 47.3% positivity rate on Friday.
Based on the latest data, 48% of 3,400 intensive care unit (ICU) beds for COVID-19 patients nationwide are in use.
All laboratories were operational since January 13, while eight laboratories failed to submit data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System, according to the DOH.
There were 134 duplicates removed from the total case count. Of these, 83 were recoveries. At least 10 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation.
