MANILA – The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday reported that the daily average Covid-19 cases dropped to 200 from April 25 to May 1 or 5 percent lower than the new infections prior to the week in review.
Based on the latest case bulletin, the DOH stated that there are 1,399 new cases of the coronavirus in the recent week.
There were no new cases added to the tally of severe and critical infections during the same period, which stood at 723.
Only 16.1 percent or 456 out of the 2,830 intensive care unit (ICU) beds in the country are used while 16.3 percent or 3,998 out of 24,521 non-ICU beds are utilized.
Meanwhile, there were 215 confirmed fatalities in the previous week.
Around 75.45 percent of the country’s target population has been vaccinated against Covid-19.
Moreover, the DOH logged 76.48 percent of the senior citizens have been vaccinated against the disease.
The elderly group is composed of 8,721,357 individuals while the country’s target population for inoculation is 80 percent (90,005,357 individuals) of the country’s entire population.
The DOH data showed 67,911,464 individuals are fully vaccinated while 13,231,643 people have received their booster shots as of May 1.
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