By Ma. Teresa Montemayor | Philippine News Agency
MANILA – About 73.4% of the country’s target population has been vaccinated against COVID-19, the Department of Health (DOH) said Monday.
In its latest case bulletin, the DOH also reported that 75.83% of the senior citizens have been inoculated against the disease.
The elderly group is composed of 8,721,357 individuals while the country’s target population for inoculation is 80% or 90,005,357 individuals of the country’s entire population.
As of April 3, DOH data showed that 66,125,962 individuals are fully vaccinated while 12,154,567 people have received their booster shots.
On healthcare utilization, the DOH reported 692 severe and critical cases admitted in hospitals nationwide due to COVID-19 as only one case was added to the tally for the recent week.
Only 16.5% or 492 out of the 2,990 intensive care unit (ICU) beds in the country are used while 16.7% or 4,230 out of 25,340 non-ICU beds are utilized.
For the period from March 28 to April 3, the DOH logged 2,697 new cases while the daily average cases for the recent week is 382 or 2% lower than the new infections reported from March 21 to 27.
The DOH recorded 329 fatalities from March 28 to April 3. (PNA)-ngs
